It took more than 100 firefighters 2 hours and 39 minutes to put out a greater alarm blaze in a large commercial building in Van Nuys that housed textile businesses and a church and was in a row of commercial buildings, authorities said Monday.
The fire was reported at 9:32 p.m. Sunday at 6415 Van Nuys Blvd., the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nicholas Prange reported.
“Crews arrived to find smoke showing, but after making entry and ventilating the roof above, flames began shooting over 30 feet out of the building,” Prange said. “Firefighters relocated their efforts to the exterior of the building for the remainder of the fire fight, using ladder pipes and other large hose streams to fight the fire from the outside.”
The roof collapsed enabling firefighters to pump water through the top and kept the fire from spreading to the adjacent businesses, which shared a wall with the burning building, he said.
The textiles inside the building helped fuel the fire, Prange said.
No one was inside the building and there were no injuries reported, he said. The cause was under investigation.