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Ventura County Apartment Complex Hit By Fire

(Photo courtesy Ventura County Fire Department)
Fire hits Simi Valley apartment complex

Firefighters stopped a fire burning in a Ventura County apartment complex before it could spread to other units.

The blaze was reported at about 11 a.m. Tuesday on the 1500 block of Patricia Avenue.

Ventura County firefighters arrived to find flames and smoke coming from a second story unit. The fire heavily damaged the unit, but firefighters knocked down the blaze before it could spread.

No one was hurt. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.