Man injured in one-alarm fire in Newport Beach

Deepa Bharath

A man suffered third-degree burns to his arm after his coffee pot

caught fire in his Newport Beach apartment Thursday afternoon, officials

said.

The man was just moving into his studio unit in the 2200 block of Park

Newport Drive, said Newport Beach Fire Capt. John Blauer.

“He put the coffee pot on the stove,” he said. “After a while, he saw

the plastic pot was burning. It had ignited other areas in the kitchen as

well.”

Firefighters arrived on the scene about 1:40 p.m., five minutes after

they got the call, Blauer said. It took them six minutes to get the fire

under control, he said.

“After that, it was mostly smoke that they had to deal with,” Blauer

said.

The injured man was taken to UCI Medical Center. Two other building

staff members were taken to Hoag Hospital for smoke inhalation.

Twenty-two firefighters responded to the call in four engines, a truck

and two paramedic units.

Blauer said the residents on the entire floor were evacuated but soon

were allowed to return to their apartments. He said the kitchen area,

about 300 square feet of space, was damaged.