On Monday, March 6, 2006 at 3:35 a.m., 19 companies of Los Angeles firefighters, eight LAFD rescue ambulances, one arson unit, two urban search and rescue units, two hazardous materials teams, three EMS battalion captains, five battalion chief officer command teams and one division chief officer command team, all under the direction of Assistant Chief Roy Kozaki responded to a greater alarm structure fire at 1132 South Doheny Drive in the Pico-Robertson area of west Los Angeles.

Arriving quickly to discover fire through the roof of a three-story partially occupied center-hallway apartment building undergoing renovation, firefighters extended handlines to do battle with intense fire in one 1,700 square-foot unit on the third floor.

The fire was confined to the apartment of origin and extinguished in just thirty-five minutes.

Though there were no civilian injuries, one firefighter sustained significant back pain during arduous fireground operations. He remained on duty pending a further medical assessment.
 
The adult male tenant of the involved apartment, who was at a second-floor unit at the time of the fire, was to seek his own accommodations. Residents of the two other occupied apartments in the nine-unit non-fire sprinklered building were not directly impacted by the flames.
  
Loss from the fire is estimated at $200,000 ($150,000 structure & $50,000 contents). The cause of this early morning blaze remains under active investigation.