Thirty people were evacuated from a city-owned senior apartment complex in Oxnard early Friday morning following a fire in one of the units, authorities said. When they responded at 12:41 a.m. to a fire sprinkler alarm in the six-story complex at 401 South C St., Oxnard firefighters found a fourth-floor apartment filled with smoke, said Battalion Chief Chris Donabedian of the Oxnard Fire Department. Firefighters found a man inside the apartment and helped him down the apartment building’s stairs and out of the building, Donabedian said. The man appeared to have inhaled some smoke from the fire. He was evaluated by paramedics and released. No other injuries were reported.Fire sprinklers extinguished the flames in the man’s room, which burned his bed and some bedding, Donabedian said. [click to continue…]
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