A greater-alarm fire tore through a building at a large apartment complex in Woodland Hills on Saturday night, authorities said.
One person was examined for a possible smoke inhalation injury and then released at the scene of the fire, which was reported just after 8 p.m. at the Warner Villa Apartments complex in the 5800 block of North Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
Ninety firefighters responded and knocked down the blaze in 40 minutes, he said. Reports from the scene showed a building with flames roaring through its roof. One man rushed in with a hose and tried to battle the flames himself.
Emily Sheerer said firefighters rescued her dog, but couldn't get the cat because it was under a bed.
"It was the worst feeling ever," she said. "I was so scared. I thought he was going to be dead."
But after firefighters got the cat out, she said she started crying.
"I was so happy."
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Humphrey said firefighters contained the blaze to the first-floor unit. A stretch of Topanga Canyon Boulevard was closed between Oxnard Street and the Ventura (101) Freeway.
