A Greater Emergency Fire damaged a boarded up, four-story building in East Hollywood Sunday morning and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish, authorities said.
No injuries were reported.
The fire was reported at 3:17 a.m. at 315 N. Vermont Ave., just north of Beverly Boulevard — the site of a “previous burn,” Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Jennifer Middleton said.
Knockdown was declared after one hour and seven minutes with roughly 66 firefighters at the scene.
Middleton said conditions left from the previous burn and other circumstances at the site made it “very hazardous for firefighters to fight the fire from the interior.”
They instead remained outside using ladders and hand-held hoses to fight the flames from a “defensive posture,” she said.
Middleton described the building as a “boarded-up apartment building with three residential stories over commercial occupancies on the first floor.
A fire was previously reported at the building on March 15, 2018.
“Per protocol for an incident of this size, LAFD Arson Section is responding for the investigation,” Middleton said.