Basic safety measures to prevent fires, protect your life

In Los Angeles in 2011, the L.A. Fire Department responded to 8,099 structure fires. Ninety-seven people were injured, and 19 were killed.  Residential fire rates tend to be higher in cities with large numbers of older buildings, and consequently deaths by fire are more common in low-income communities.  Get fire safety tips and read about one Boyle Heights resident's narrow escape when his building lit up, on Boyle Heights Beat.