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LOS ANGELES (CNS)- A Los Angeles Fire Department captain sustained a non-life-threatening injury when a pressurized gas cylinder exploded at an encampment in an abandoned subterranean pedestrian tunnel Tuesday in the Vermont Knolls area of South Los Angeles.
Fire crews responded at 3:09 a.m. to 7501 S. Normandie Ave. south of 74th Street where they found the fire, said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey.
The captain was taken to a hospital in fair condition for treatment.
No other injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation.