Cypress apartment fire leaves one person dead, another with burn injuries

Neighbors rescue woman after fire engulfs her home

A Thursday morning Cypress apartment complex fire left one person dead with another woman taken to a hospital with burn injuries.

When Firefighters arrived to the 5700 block of Playa Way complex around 9:18 a.m., they found one of the apartment units on fire and worked to put it out.

Orange County Fire Authority reported that a woman with burn injuries was transported to the hospital.

Investigators determined the cause of the fire was accidental.

Julie Sharp

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach.