Sherrif's homicide detectives labled the fire that killed a 3-year-old boy Thursday as “suspicious” and began an investigation into the cause of the two-story fire that broke out in an unincorporated area near Compton.
The fire began at around 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the only two-story home on Lennon St. in the Rosewood section of the county east of Compton and was brought under control at 5:11 p.m., according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Ivan Buggs died at a hospital, said coroner's Chief Craig Harvey.
The child's demise is regarded as "a suspicious death," a Sheriff's Department statement said. But the cause of the fire and its point of origin were not immediately determined.
The boy's 38-year-old mother was inside the home when the fire started and escaped with minor injuries, said L.A. County sheriff's Deputy Benjamin Grubb.
The woman was "very upset ... very despondent" as she was being questioned by homicide investigators Thursday night, said sheriff's Lt. Mike Rosson, a member of the squad investigating the blaze.
The early indication is that she and the boy were upstairs, "and at some point the child went downstairs," Rosson said.
The woman smelled smoke, tried to go down the stairs but the ground floor was already ``filled with smoke and heat,'' he said, adding she then went out the balcony and returned in a futile effort to get inside.
The boy was later found by firefighters and taken to Memorial Hospital of Gardena, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
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