Photos: Firefighter fatally shot, captain injured by colleague at Agua Dulce fire station
A home burns on West Bent Spur Drive in Acton on Tuesday. The fire was believed to be related to a shooting at nearby L.A. County Fire Station 81 in Agua Dulce.
An off-duty firefighter killed a fellow firefighter and critically wounded a captain in a shooting at Agua Dulce fire station Tuesday morning, officials said.
The suspect then fled to his home on Bent Spur Drive, about 10 miles away. Within minutes, that home was on fire, and by 3 p.m., it had been reduced to near rubble by the flames.
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a house on fire in Acton on Tuesday.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
A person believed to be the suspect was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a small pool on the property, according to sheriff’s officials.
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Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Daryl L. Osby said it was a “tragic day for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.”
A Sheriff’s Department armored vehicle drives up an Acton street Tuesday. A suspect in a shooting was believed to be barricaded in a home there.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
A member of law enforcement is hoisted up to a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department rescue helicopter near the house of a suspected gunman.
(Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)
A firefighting helicopter makes a water drop on a home in the 2600 block of West Bent Spur Drive in Acton on Tuesday.
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A news conference is held at Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 150 in Canyon Country on Tuesday.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
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A sheriff’s deputy secures a street in Acton. Nearby, a suspected gunman was believed to have been holed up in a house.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Acton residents evacuate horses from a neighborhood on Tuesday.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
Members of the firefighting and law enforcement communities listen during a news conference at Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 150 in Canyon Country.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department investigates a shooting at Fire Station 81 on Sierra Highway in Agua Dulce, where a shooter left one firefighter dead and another injured.
(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Los Angeles Fire Chief Daryl L. Osby addresses the media after the fatal shooting of a firefighter.
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