Firefighters quickly knocked down a fire Sunday inside one unit in an apartment building in North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.

The fire inside a building at 6847 N. Gentry Ave. was reported just after 2 p.m., department spokesman Brian Humphrey said.

The department dispatched 20 firefighters to the scene and extinguished the flames in about nine minutes, Humphrey continued.

All seven resident of the apartment escaped without injury, Humphrey said.

The cause of the fire remained under investigation.

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