A man and a woman were found dead in a tent in Westlake on Monday, and a few months later another person died in the same camp in the RV fire.

According to a department spokesman, the LAPD responded to the 1200 block of Huntley Drive (near Highway 110 and downtown Los Angeles). The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office is working to determine how they died. The spokesman said police did not investigate the death-related homicide.

The woman was identified as 46-year-old Lucrecia Macias Barajas, according to a spokesperson for the medical prosecutor.

The spokesman said the man was retained in his 30s until authorities were able to reach his family.

KTLA News reported that Barajas's family found her body a few days after she was unable to reach her and tore her tent, which was locked from the inside.

ABC7 News captured videos of the animal service and picked up Barajas’ dog from the camp Monday night. An animal service spokesman said the department responded to LAPD's request to retrieve two dogs - a bulldog mixture and shepherd mixture - from the camp and took them to the North Central Animal Shelter.

A man living nearby told Ketra that his dog was attacked by dogs in the camp, which he said caused ongoing problems nearby.

“This place has always been a dangerous area,” the man told the media. “People don’t feel safe and don’t do anything to clean it up permanently.”

On January 7, a man was found dead in a burned car in the camp. The second person, a 38-year-old man, was taken to the hospital, said Margaret Stewart, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The mortality rate for homeless people in Los Angeles County increased by 55% between 2019 and 2021, which is the increase in fentanyl overdose attributed to public health officials.

In 2023, 2,508 people died in Los Angeles, which is equivalent to 6.9 deaths per day. Drug and alcohol overdose are the main causes of death, accounting for 45% of all deaths.

Camp fires are also contributors to the deaths of people living on the streets or in vehicles.

According to Time analysis, the number of fires related to homeless people has almost tripled from 2018 to 2020, accounting for about 38% of all fires the department responded to in that time frame.