On Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 5:36 AM, one Company of Los Angeles Firefighters, one LAFD Rescue Ambulance, one EMS Battalion Captain, under the direction of Captain I Donald Paone responded to a reported Cardiac Arrest at 1452 S. Norton Av. in West Adams/Harvard Heights.

First units arrived to find the body of a deceased 54 year old male in a rear unit of a two story apartment complex. Although there was no active fire at the time LAFD units arrived , it appeared that the man, while cooking, succumbed to 2nd degree burns to his entire body.

The Office of the Los Angeles County Coroner will seek to positively identify the deceased, as well as determine the exact cause and manner of his death. Los Angeles Police Department officials also remain part of what LAFD Investigators describe as an active investigation