Fire on the 15th floor     LAFD – LOS ANGELES – Automatic fire sprinklers prevented tragedy in a downtown residential high-rise on February 4, 2020, when fire erupted on the balcony of a 15th floor apartment. LAFD Public Information ...

Codes, exemptions, and older high-rises   By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Residents displaced when flames tore through a 1960s-era Los Angeles apartment tower and injured 13 people this week are wondering why the management company didn’t ...

Two firefighters injured in Los Angeles blaze     By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 25-story West Los Angeles apartment tower that caught fire, forcing firefighters to pluck stranded people from the rooftop ...

Fire in a 25-story West Los Angeles apartment building  

Two people critically injured     By STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles firefighters rescued 15 terrified residents from the rooftop of a 25-story high-rise apartment building where a windswept fire broke out ...

Three-alarm fire in a commercial structure     Badboysfilms News – Structure Fire, Commercial vacant building in a high-rise 7101 Sepulveda Blvd November 26, 2019 at 3:12 PM

Many older residential towers lack the safety measure

The tower includes a massive, stabilizing central core and braces.