Four children were hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday morning after being rescued from a burning home in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Firefighters found the front of the home in the 800 block of West Manchester Avenue heavily involved with flames when they arrived about 10:51 p.m., Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. Officials said the fire ripped through the 400 square-foot bungalow at a rapid pace. Bystanders told firefighters people were trapped inside the home, which is mostly secured with bars and steel screen doors, Humphrey said. A firefighter found an un-barred window at the back of the home and climbed through.