A fire tore through the attic of a one-story home on the 1400 block of North Campus Road in Eagle Rock on Thursday, and three Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters were sent to the hospital before crews got the flames knocked down. The blaze at 1469 N Campus Rd took roughly 74 minutes to extinguish after the initial 911 call came in.
According to an alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department, first-arriving companies found fire burning in the attic of the single-family dwelling and pushed into the structure in an offensive attack mode. Firefighters declared knockdown at 1505 hours, with the LAFD confirming three of its own personnel were transported to a local hospital. The department has not released the condition of those firefighters. The cause of the fire remained undetermined as of the LAFD's alert.
The department also noted it deployed fire hydration units on scene, a standard measure meant to rehabilitate firefighters and guard against heat exhaustion during extended operations. The Los Angeles Police Department was notified and opened its own incident under number 2910, while the Department of Transportation was called in to handle traffic control around the scene. LAFD logged the response under incident number 1168, with Fire Station 55 and Battalion 2 of the Central Bureau handling the call in Los Angeles City Council District 14.
Eagle Rock's Recent Run of House Fires
Thursday's fire is the latest in a string of residential blazes to hit the Eagle Rock area. A small brushfire in July damaged three homes in the neighborhood on a day when temperatures hit 96 degrees, according to the Los Angeles Times, with one home on Palmer Drive significantly damaged and two others also affected.
In June 2025, a fire that engulfed a detached garage and spread into an Eagle Rock residence injured three people — a man with burn injuries and two women with minor smoke inhalation — per City News Service. Nearly 100 firefighters battled that blaze, reaching knockdown in about 45 minutes.
A Department Stretched Thin
The Campus Road fire also lands amid broader concerns about emergency response capacity across Los Angeles. Citywide, the LAFD's average response time to structure fires now sits close to five and a half minutes, about 30 seconds slower than in 2016, according to firefighterclosecalls.com. The same report found average response times for medical emergencies — which make up the bulk of the department's call volume — now run about six minutes and 30 seconds, a full minute longer than nine years earlier, with Westside response times running roughly a minute longer still for fires.
That same account pointed to staffing strain behind the numbers, citing 162 vacant 911 operator positions as of early July. In 2023, the LAPD fielded about 1.5 million calls while the LAFD handled roughly 730,000, underscoring the volume moving through the city's emergency systems even as positions go unfilled.
For now, the cause of Thursday's Eagle Rock fire remains undetermined, and the LAFD has not said how many firefighters or units were ultimately assigned to the call. The department continues to urge residents to report emergencies by calling or texting 911.
