A fire reignited Tuesday at a commercial building in the Central-Alameda area of Los Angeles that was the site of a major emergency fire on Monday.
Tuesday’s flare-up was reported at about 4 a.m. at 5505 S. Alameda St., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Crews battled the fire as it spread to surrounding power lines, prompting involvement from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Firefighters were employing large-diameter hose lines and protecting nearby exposures.
No injuries were immediately reported.
The building at that address, the Bel Air Wood Floor warehouse, was the site of another fire that broke out around 1 a.m. Monday at a neighboring recycling plant before it spread to the adjacent building. That major-emergency blaze took over 120 firefighters four hours to put out.
Assistant LAFD Chief Carlos Calvillo told reporters at the scene that firefighters had been monitoring the site when the flare-up broke out amid “a complex of buildings that are all intertwined internally.”
“You can see, we had to cut the whole side of this building open just to gain access,” he said, adding that the fire was deeply seated.
Calvillo said he wasn’t sure if the power lines had been re-energized when the flare-up occurred.