VIDEO: A grandmother is dead and two others are hospitalized after a fire erupted in an apartment in Hollywood, according to officials. Hollywood Police and Fire Rescue responded to reports of an apartment fire along the 400 block of South Ocean Drive just after 3:00 a.m. Wednesday. Upon arrival, crews found the first floor of the building engulfed in flames. Cellphone video captured orange flames taking over the apartment. Fire crews located a father with injuries asking for help outside as his son and his sonโs grandmother were trapped inside. Crews pulled the two people trapped through a window. Witnesses said the smell of smoke jolted them out of bed. โI smelled smoke. I opened my door, ran out on top of my roof, and looked and saw smoke emerging from the bottom of my building,โ said neighbor Joe Simpson.
