A massive fire in building that
was under construction at downtown Los Angeles blazed the flames today that
closed the traffic on Monday morning and left some freeway lanes into the day.
More than 250 firefighters was
working to handle the fire which began around 1:20 am at a block-long building
site but after that 350 firefighters fought the blazes, according to the Los
Angeles Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas.
It was reported that there is no
any injuries because of that the building was under construction. The seven story
complex enclosed in flames that could be seen for a miles.
“It looked like a bomb had just
exploded,” LA fire captain Rick Godinez told the LA Times.
One fire station reached at
building directly from the street and the fire fighters immediately began to
work on control the fire but at that time the fire had moved throughout the
building. The reason behind this the building was under construction, according
to The Los Angeles Times.
“It was the perfect storm, if you
will, for fire spread,” Ortiz said in a phone interview. “There were no
dividing firewalls between the different components of it.”
The construction building was in
1.3 million square feet residential area. The cause of fire not cleared till
now, on that day US Route 101 and Interstate 110 were shut down while fired building
fell into lanes.
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