Crews battled a fire at a commercial building near the 10 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.
The flames were burning through the roof when firefighters arrived around 7 a.m. at the one-story vacant building on East Violet Street, the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert.
The fire was intense enough that crews were forced to take a defensive position while battling the blaze.
Sky5 was over the scene at 7:30 a.m. as crews appeared to be getting a handle on the fire.
The LAFD declared the incident a “knockdown” roughly 10 minutes later.
About 28 firefighters took just under 40 minutes to extinguish the flames, the Fire Department said.
No one was injured in the incident, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
