LAFD: Firefighters Battle Greater Alarm Fire in Vacant Downtown L.A. Church | August 27, 2021
Channel: LAFD
Date: 2021-08-29

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Fire Department Public Information Officer Firefighter David Ortiz highlights the LAFD battle at greater alarm structure fire involving a vacant church at 1376 East 18th Street near downtown Los Angeles on August 27, 2021. 

Despite heavy fire, structural compromise and collapse, as well as arcing and fallen high voltage power lines, 116 LAFD Firefighters took just 2 hours and 16 minutes in defensive operations to contain and fully extinguish flames in the unoccupied 7,151 square-foot two-story church, built in 1903. There were no injuries. The fire's cause remains under investigation.