Cypress apartment fire leaves 1 dead, another injured

A fire at an apartment complex in Cypress left one person dead and another injured after she narrowly escaped the flames Thursday morning, Jan. 11, authorities said.

The fire occurred around 9:20 a.m. Firefighters from the Orange County Fire Authority found heavy smoke coming from an apartment unit on the 5700 block of Playa Way, Capt. Thanh Nguyen told OC Hawk, a news organization that often works with the Southern California News Group.

Upon arrival, firefighter paramedics treated a woman rescued by a neighbor and a bystander through a broken window after the two saw the apartment unit’s front-door on fire and heard the woman yelling for help. She was hospitalized with unknown injuries, authorities said.

Firefighters knocked down the fire within 30 minutes, preventing it from spreading to the adjacent apartments on either said, Nguyen said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.