Firefighters made quick work Sunday of a fire inside a vacant apartment building in the Florence area of Los Angeles.
The blaze inside the building at 7411 S. Stanford Ave. was reported at 7:25 p.m., according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.
The department dispatched 40 firefighters and had the flames out in 18 minutes, Humphrey said.
One uninjured man was helped off the roof by firefighters. The fire was on the top floor of the apartment building, he said.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire remained under investigation, he said.