Some Studio City residents waiting on mail that should have arrived early last week may be out of luck after fire ripped through a United States Postal Service vehicle, completely destroying it and all the undelivered mail it was carrying.
The fire, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, occurred Aug. 12 at around 5 p.m. in the 3600 block of Sunswept Drive, a neighborhood in the Studio City hills.
Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly how the blaze started, but images of the incident posted to the Citizen App show heavy smoke coming from the vehicle, parked perilously close to a home, as firefighters doused it with water and foam.
When the smoke cleared, all that remained of the USPS vehicle was twisted and scorched metal, a lone surviving headlight, side-view mirror and bumper giving away what the heap used to be
