Person suffers laceration to head during fire at assisted living home

Fire truck and ambulance outside of a fire.
Fire truck and ambulance outside of a fire. Photo credit Getty Images

MISSION VIEJO (CNS) - Firefighters quickly knocked down a fire Sunday inside a garage at an assisted living home in Mission Viejo, where one person suffered a laceration to the head during the blaze, authorities said.

The condition of the injured person was not immediately known.

Firefighters were dispatched at 4:25 a.m. Sunday to the 26000 block of Carmenita. A caretaker at the home was awakened by a smoke alarm and immediately got all six residents out, according to fire officials.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

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