4 Firefighters Injured in Corona Blaze

Flames roared through a Corona Street on a day that saw temperatures drop well below freezing.
On Saturday, January 18, 33 units with 138 firefighters responded to a 3-alarm blaze located at 103rd Street in Corona. According to fire officials, firefighters arrived less than six minutes after receiving the initial call at 11:13 a.m.
The fire, which engulfed a one-story mattress store and extended to an adjacent auto body shop, quickly spread to a vacant resident ial building located at 33-34 103rd Street, however, no residents sustained injuries in the fire that was reported under control by 1:27 p.m.
A total of four firefighters sustained injuries while fighting the blaze. Three firefighters were said to have sustained minor injuries requiring two of them to be taken to Elmhurst Hospital while the third was treated at the scene and released. The fourth firefighter sustained more serious injuries after falling down a shaft breaking one ankle, both heel bones, and fracturing one vertebrae in his back. The firefighter is currently at Elmhurst hospital.
Fire Department sources stated that undetermined amounts of people were evacuated from the surrounding area for precautionary reasons. It was reported that fire marshals did respond to the scene but the cause of the fire was not immediately determined, and the names of the injured could not be released at the time. Reports of possible hazardous fumes from chemicals emanating from the auto body shop could not be confirmed.