LAFD crews douses apartment fire in South LA; three patients rescued from within building

Crews with the Los Angeles Fire Department battled a blaze that engulfed multiple floors of a South Los Angeles apartment building Tuesday evening.

LAFD said the fire happened at the intersection of 104th Place and Figueroa Street. Authorities elevated the seriousness of the blaze to a greater alarm fire as it engulfed both floors of the two-story apartment complex. 

Three patients were taken to the hospital after they were rescued from the second floor. 

The 72 firefighters battling the blaze were able to extinguish it in 33 minutes.

A cause was not yet known.