2 treated after Covina house fire

A father and son were treated for smoke inhalation from an early morning house fire in Covina on New Year’s Day, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department officials.

The fire occurred at a home on Cameron Avenue near Grand Avenue. The blaze, which was started by embers from the fireplace, began at 1:20 a.m. and was put out about 50 minutes later, fire officials said. The blaze caused about $30,000 damage to the $1.6-million house.

Several other house fires occurred Tuesday morning in the city of Los Angeles, but nobody was injured, Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. In South Los Angeles, a fire in a home on 103rd Street displaced four family members. The blaze started at 2:30 a.m. and firefighters put out the flames 15 minutes later.

In North Hollywood, a fire gutted one unit of a two-story apartment building. The fire started at 5:20 a.m. in the building on Chandler Boulevard and was out within 20 minutes, Humphrey said.

The cause of both of those fires is under investigation, but Humphrey said that New Year’s Eve is one of the most dangerous days of the year for fires started by candles.

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