A 19-year-old French citizen who was gravely injured when flames tore through a high-rise apartment tower this week died Friday evening at a hospital, authorities said.
The Fire Department announced the death but provided no details.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office identified him as Jeremy Bru of France.
But it had no other details, and there was no immediate word on the exact cause of his death.
Bru was a foreign exchange student, KCBS-TV reported.
Bru was among 11 people who were treated after Wednesday's fire, mostly for smoke inhalation.
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Seven of them, including a 3-month-old child and a man in critical condition, were sent to hospitals. There was no updated word on their conditions Friday.
In addition, two firefighters received minor burns as they scrambled to reach the apartment where the blaze began using bottled oxygen, fire Capt. Erik Scott said.
In some dramatic rescues, helicopter crews plucked 15 people from the roof and a ladder was used to save a man who clung to the outside of the building as flames raged in nearby apartments.
The fire displaced 339 residents, and some wondered why the management company didn't install sprinklers after another destructive blaze seven years ago.
City officials said after the 2013 fire "that it shouldn't take another tragedy" to get sprinklers into older buildings that are exempt from retrofitting rules, City Councilman Mike Bonin said Thursday.
"But it did."
The statements did not address the lawsuit but said the building had passed its most recent Fire Department inspection and that the company was interested in learning the results of the investigation into the cause of the fire, which appears to have started inside one of the residential units."