Photo by Mike Messina
Firefighters responded to a small blaze that broke out in some brush above the Hermon Dog Park at about noon today. Mike Messina, who was at the park, took the above photo as firefighters extinguished the fire near Avenue 60 and the Arroyo Seco Parkway. No other details were immediately available.
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A 27-year-old man suffered critical burns late this afternoon during a fire in the 2800 block of Berkeley Avenue in Silver Lake, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Matt Spence. It took a team of 28 firefighters about 15 minutes to extinguish the blaze that broke out at about 4:30 p.m. in a two-story structure. No further details were available.
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Photo by C.J. Salgado
A small fire broke out on Thursday afternoon on the site of a nearly 90-year-old East Los Angeles handball court that has been nominated as a state historic monument. The fire at Maravilla Handball Court – the oldest surviving handball court in East L.A. – caused relatively minor damage to a vacant store connected to the brick court and will not interfere with the landmark nomination, said Los Angeles Conservancy official Cindy Olnick who inspected the damage.
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More than 150 firefighters assisted by a water-dropping helicopters battled a blaze early this evening that severely damaged the Echo Park hilltop home of a former film and TV actress and sent a thick column of smoke across the sky. The fire ignited live ammunition inside the house in the 1400 block of Elysian Park Drive near Douglas Street and threatened to spread to nearby brush, according to fire department officials. But the blaze that began at about 6 p.m. was extinguished before it spread to other homes and apartment buildings only a few feet away. No injuries were reported.
Estefan Bravo, 48, said the two-story home is owned by his mother, Ann Robinson, who co-starred in the science fiction classic War of the Worlds. He said his mother was not injured.
A neighbor, Lou Becker, said the fire appeared to start in the rear yard of the house. He said one man was attempting to put out the fire with an extinguisher before the blaze got out of hand. “It just got too big, too fast,” he said.
LAFD Battalion Chief Fred Mathis said investigators are trying to determine what caused the blaze, which caused extensive damage to the home. Mathis, on the LAFD blog, said the location of the home on a narrow street made it difficult to reach the blaze:
“There was one way in and out. After the first apparatus arrived, all those following had to stack one behind the other downhill. This required some firefighters to carry gear up a 1/4 mile, then back again to exchange air bottles. It was a tough location. They did a great job!”
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Photo by Jen Byrne
Jen Byrne was headed north Glendale Boulevard past Rowena Avenue in Silver Lake on Friday night when suddenly the parked car she was driving past exploded into flame:
It was crazy ! But luckily, it happened across the street from the fire station’s back door. I called 911, but of course, the fire dept must have called it in right before me. I think I overheard the man who was starting the car, who got out totally safe, say that there was a gas leak …
Cap. Gregg Olson at the Silver Lake fire station said records do show a car caught on fire shortly before 9 p.m. across the street from the station but there is no information about what caused the blaze.
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Park rangers escorted visitors out of Debs Park this afternoon after a small fire brush began at the base of a hill near Hermon. Approximately 80 firefighters assisted by helicopters took about an hour to put out the blaze that was reported shortly after 2 p.m. near 5600 block N. Via Marisol, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. No injuries were reported. Officials were trying to determined what caused the blaze, which could be seen from the nearby Arroyo Seco Parkway as it burned in the brush below Bushnell Way Elementary.
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Firefighters launched a ground and air attack on a small grass fire that broke out this afternoon on the border of El Sereno and Lincoln Heights near the site of an earlier blaze that blackened about three acres early this morning. This afternoon’s fire, which was reported shortly after 5 p.m., had consumed less than two acres, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire was burning near 2914 Amethyst Street in the Rose Hill section of El Sereno. The morning’s pre-dawn fire scorched the area near 3008 Eva Terrace, which is down the hill from Amethyst Street.
* Update @ 6:26 p.m.: Firefighters have put out the fire and are gathering details about the destruction of one vehicle, according to the LAFD. About 60 firefighters and 3 water-dropping helicopters were used to extinguish the fire, which burned less than three acres.
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Firefighters are putting out a small brush fire that broke out this afternoon in Elysian Park along the 110 Freeway near Stadium Way, according to a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman. One engine company is on the scene after the blaze was reported at 1:10 p.m. east of Dodger Stadium.
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Firefighters quickly put out a blaze that broke out at about 7 p.m. in an Echo Park bungalow in the 1700 block of Lucretia Avenue near Echo Park Avenue. No one was injured in the fire, which left the narrow street jammed with about half a dozen fire trucks and sent a smoke billowing across the hills. “It was a quick knock down,” said Los Angeles Fire Department Battalion Chief Greg Gibson. No person was inside the approximately 800-square-foot bungalow, which is located at the base of a hillside cluster of small cottages and apartments. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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A four-block stretch of Figueroa Street in Highland Park is expected to be closed until late afternoon today as firefighters clean up and investigate a blaze that broke out in a tire shop. Figueroa between Marmion Way on the south and Avenue 43 on the north has been closed since after 1 p.m. when a fire was reported at a tire shop at Figueroa and Avenue 41, said Battalion Chief Chris Kawai.
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