A non-injury apartment building fire Monday in Santa Monica went to two alarms before it was knocked down, leaving about 120 people displaced.
The Santa Monica Fire Department announced about 6:20 p.m. that it was battling a fire in the 1400 block of Lincoln Boulevard, near Broadway.
About 30 minutes later, a department tweet said the fire had gone to two alarms.
Forty-five firefighters from the Santa Monica and Los Angeles fire departments responded and knocked down the fire in 34 minutes, containing it to “a subterranean area” of the five-story, 96-unit building, officials said.
The Red Cross was summoned to assist about 120 displaced residents, according to the SMFD.
–City News Service