Elderly Man Hospitalized After Fire Sweeps Thru Unit At Hallandale Condo

January 19, 2007 Florida - Fire in a condo at an oceanfront high-rise sent an elderly man to the hospital for treatment of possible smoke inhalation Friday morning, police and firefighters said. The blaze occurred in a 16-story building, one of three high-rises that are part of the La Mer condo complex, on the 1800 block of South Ocean Drive, around 7 a.m. The building where the fire occurred fronts on the east side of A1A. City spokesman Andrew Casper said an elderly man who lived in the third-floor ...