The Los Angeles Fire Department declared a “Major Emergency” as a vacant structure burned in downtown Los Angeles Thursday morning. The blaze in the 1200 block of South Hope Street burned a vacant structure and required 17 fire companies to battle it,

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Firefighters are working to put out a downtown Los Angeles vacant building fire Thursday, extended on their truck ladders, battling dense smoke as well. The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. at a four-story building at S.

Firefighters with the Los Angeles Fire Department are responding to a fire at a four story building in the downtown Los Angeles area on Thursday.

The fire broke out on the top floor of a four-story, nearly 100-year-old vacant building in the 1200 block of South Hope Street in the downtown area late Thursday morning. Althoug