A fire erupted at a unit in a two-story duplex in Boyle Heights Thursday evening with no reported injuries.
Firefighters arrived at the 3100 block of East Ganahl Street around 7:25 p.m. Thursday to a report regarding a structure fire burning on the top floor, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey
“Forty-three LAFD firefighters, with the support of LACoFD, took just 19 minutes to access, confine, and extinguish flames in one upstairs unit of a two-story residential duplex,” Humphrey said, referring to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Firefighters assessed two puppies who were rescued from the burning unit.
The conditions of the puppies remain unknown.
What may have sparked the fire was unclear, and the cause remains under investigation.