Overview
- Los Angeles County Fire Department crews arrived around 2:15 a.m. at Cinema Drive and Bouquet Canyon Road to find the vehicle engulfed in flames.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported the car struck a light pole in a single-vehicle collision.
- Fire personnel pronounced the male driver dead at the scene.
- The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the victim was an off-duty officer but did not release his name.
- Deputies investigated at the scene for hours as video showed the vehicle heavily damaged and destroyed by fire.