Firefighters Friday were working to extinguish a greater-alarm fire in a church in he Harvard Heights area of Los Angeles.
The was reported at 12:51 p.m. Friday in the two-story building in the 2000 block of South Oxford Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
” Interior fire attack located fire in the walls in a corner of the building,” an LAFD statement said. “There appears to be a basement or crawlspace with fire, and crews are working to make access.”
No injuries have been reported, according to the LAFD.
“The structure is (doing business as) a church,” the LAFD statement said. “Therefore, per protocol, the House of Worship Task Force was notified.”
The Los Angeles House of Worship Arson Task Force is comprised of personnel from the following agencies: the LAFD; the Los Angeles Police Department; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.