Firefighters knocked down a fire inside a former car wash in the Manchester Square section of Los Angeles Saturday.
The blaze inside the vacant building at 8216 S. Western Ave. was reported just before 4:30 p.m., according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Nicholas Prange.
The department dispatched 26 firefighters to the scene and extinguished the flames in about 12 minutes, Prange said.
A man was found inside the building and being evaluated for medical problems by paramedics, he said.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation.