Lucia "Lucky Lucy" Soto (b. 1986) is a native of Los Angeles, a second-generation Mexican-American and speaks both English and Spanish fluently. She was born in the Westlake area. Her family moved to Pacoima after 1993. In that year Soto survived an apartment fire in a building on Bonnie Brae Street in which five other children died from smoke inhalation. After high school she attended Mills College in Oakland, originally intending to pursue a law degree. After graduation her interest changed to law enforcement.