Hollywood apartment fire sends family, three officers to hospital
A pre-dawn Hollywood apartment fire sent an elderly man, two children and three police officers to the hospital after officers rushed into the burning Park Plaza unit.
Three Hollywood police officers rushed into a burning apartment near the 2800 block of Pierce Street before firefighters arrived, and the fire sent a family and the officers to the hospital. The blaze was reported at about 6:08 a.m. Monday at Park Plaza Apartments in Hollywood.
Police and fire rescue units reached the two-story apartment building near Park Plaza Apartments and found a fast-moving emergency that forced first responders to make immediate decisions inside a smoke-filled home. Hollywood police officers entered the unit first to look for trapped victims, then firefighters took over the scene.
The family inside also suffered serious injuries. An elderly man in his 70s was critically injured after jumping from a smoky second-floor window or balcony to escape. His daughter and grandchildren were rescued from the unit, and two children were later hospitalized with smoke inhalation. Authorities had not publicly confirmed what sparked the fire.
The fire turned a residential block in west Hollywood into an active rescue scene before sunrise, with multiple people taken for treatment after the blaze.
On Feb. 4, one firefighter was hospitalized after responding to an apartment building fire in the city. In October 2025, three people, including a police officer and firefighter, were hospitalized in a Hollywood Beach high-rise apartment fire.
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