RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—A veteran Los Angeles County firefighter was overcome by smoke and flames Jan. 6 while battling a Rancho Palos Verdes house fire and had to be pulled from the inferno by fellow firefighters and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The crew from Fire Station 83 responded to the blaze around 2 a.m. in the 30700 block of Tarapaca Road.
