DTLA Building Fire Site of 3 Previous Burns

LAFD responded to a fire in a vacant commercial medical building in Downtown Los Angeles Saturday night. Johnathan Martin / KNN

Downtown Los Angeles, CA: Firefighters responded to a fire in a building in Downtown Los Angeles that burned three previous times before, making Saturday night, Mar. 19, the fourth time.

This was the fourth fire at the same building that LAFD crews have responded to and extinguished. *Johnathan Martin* / KNN

Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call around 10:27 p.m. for a reported structure fire at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles.

Arriving engines discovered a vacant commercial medical building with flames showing through the roof. This was the fourth fire at the same building that LAFD crews have responded to and extinguished.

LAFD reported it took over 50 firefighters just under 36 minutes to knock down the fire, with no injuries reported.