By Stefanie Dazio
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES 鈥� Two Los Angeles County sheriff鈥檚 deputies were seriously hurt Tuesday after a fire broke out at a training facility north of Los Angeles.
The deputies were listed in critical condition after being injured at the training center in Castaic, a community roughly 35 miles (55 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
No other details on the injuries were immediately released.
It was unclear how many total people were injured and what caused the blaze. Firefighters, using water cannons, fought the fire for hours. A KTLA helicopter over the scene showed firefighters spraying water into the smoking rear of a parked semitrailer.
The fire happened at about 9:30 a.m. at the facility located on a sprawling campus that also houses the Pitchess Detention Center, a county jail, the sheriff鈥檚 department said.
About 10 minutes later, firefighters were dispatched to the scene and 鈥渓ive rounds鈥� at the training center were making it challenging to fight the blaze, said Fred Fielding, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The sheriff鈥檚 department is still trying to determine the cause, spokesperson Nicole Nishida said.
The fire department initially said four deputies were taken to the hospital. The sheriff鈥檚 department later said two deputies were transported to the hospital. Patrick Moody, a spokesperson for Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital said two deputies there were listed in critical condition.