Woman suffers burn injuries in Century City apartment fire

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A woman was critically injured Friday morning in an apartment fire in Century City.

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The first arriving crews saw smoke coming from a two-story, garden- style apartment building and found a mattress burning in a second-floor unit after the blaze was reported at 5:48 a.m., according to Lyndsey Lantz of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Firefighters put out the fire by 6:06 a.m. and the patient, a woman in her mid-30s, was taken by paramedics to a burn center, Lantz said.

Los Angeles Police Department and LAFD arson investigators were summoned to the location, she said.

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