{"id":461353,"date":"2010-03-22T19:51:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9660e7b970b"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:59:07","slug":"man-77-dies-in-west-adams-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/461353","title":{"rendered":"Man, 77, dies in West Adams blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p>A 77-year-old man died Monday when a fire tore through his West Adams home, authorities said.<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9660bac970b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"Ridgeley Fire2\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9660bac970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9660bac970b-300wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 300px;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived shortly after 12:15 a.m., smoke was visible from the roof of the residence, built above a garage at <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/west-adams\/?q=2610+South+Ridgeley+Drive&#038;lat=34.031947&#038;lng=-118.361417\" >2610 South Ridgeley Drive<\/a>, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was on found on the ground floor and was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released, pending notification of relatives, the coroner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether the residence had functioning smoke alarms, the Fire Department said. The cause was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <em>Firefighters mopping up at Ridgeley Drive blaze. Credit: Los Angeles Fire Department<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-year-old man died Monday when a fire tore through his West Adams home, authorities said. When firefighters arrived shortly after 12:15 a.m., smoke was visible from the roof of the residence, built above a garage at 2610 South Ridgeley Drive, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. The victim was on found on the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}