Video footage has captured the devastating fire that erupted in an upscale Calabasas neighborhood near the Kardashian family’s luxurious estates, which left a wheelchair-bound woman trapped and killed inside a mobile home.
The horrific blaze broke out Monday afternoon, sending plumes of thick black smoke billowing into the sky of the star-studded neighborhood.
Los Angeles County Fire Department rushed to the scene shortly after 3:25pm and attempted to fight the inferno for nearly an hour before declaring a ‘knockdown,’ as reported by ABC7.
Firefighters extinguished the fire at about 4:22pm before they entered the smoldering wreckage to find the body of the disabled woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities have not yet revealed what sparked the deadly blaze.
Shocked neighbors revealed that a single mother lived in the mobile home with her three children, who ranged in age from 15 to their early 20s.
It was the woman’s eldest daughter who perished in the flames, according to ABC7.
A shaken neighbor, Brett Woodmansee, told the outlet that he spoke with the mother who said he daughter ‘wasn’t in good shape.’
Video footage has captured the devastating fire that erupted in an upscale Calabasas neighborhood near the Kardashian family’s luxurious estates, which left a wheelchair-bound woman trapped inside a mobile home
The horrific blaze broke out Monday afternoon, sending plumes of thick black smoke billowing into the sky of the star-studded neighborhood
‘I talked to the mom. I called her, and she was very short on the phone,’ Woodmansee told ABC7.
‘The fact that there’s a crime scene and you don’t know what the crime is and exactly what happened,’ he added. ‘Of course, it’s two doors down from you, that’s really scary.’
Neighbor Anthony Borgnine described the mother’s frantic behavior in the aftermath of the explosion.
‘She’s screaming bloody murder. ‘I didn’t mean to do it. I didn’t mean to do it,’ said Borgnine.
Another neighbor Gabi Gross expressed shock at learning about the wheelchair-bound victim.
Los Angeles County Fire Department rushed to the scene shortly after 3:25pm., and attempted to fight the inferno for nearly an hour before declaring a ‘knockdown’
Firefighters extinguished the fire at about 4:22pm, when they found the wheelchair-bound woman and pronounced her dead at the scene
‘We didn’t know that there was another daughter in a wheelchair,’ Gross told the outlet. ‘We just know that she has one daughter and one son. We didn’t know about another daughter over there.’
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has cordoned off the area.
Arson investigators are now combing through the charred remains of the mobile home.
