Los Angeles high-rise that caught fire lacked sprinklers
By BRIAN MELLEY and STEFANIE DAZIO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 25-story West Los Angeles apartment tower that caught fire, forcing firefighters to pluck stranded people from the rooftop and a ledge, had no sprinklers even though the same building burned seven years ago, authorities said. Flames swept through apartments on the seventh floor of the Barrington Plaza on Wednesday morning. Eleven