Firefighter injured in major blaze at downtown L.A. office supplies store

Roughly 120 firefighters, including 1 hospitalized with insignificant injuries, battled a ample occurrence that burned for hours Sunday greeting wrong a Downtown L.A. bureau supplies store, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The blaze was reported astir 4 a.m. astatine the two-story gathering with a mezzanine located astatine 1225 South Hope St. adjacent West Pico Boulevard. Upon arrival, firefighters encountered dense fume and flames.

Firefighters transitioned from violative to antiaircraft mode and utilized a remote-suppression robot to participate the building, LAFD spokesperson Jennifer Middleton said. Arson and exigency aerial units were besides requested to the scene.

Los Angeles occurrence section firefighters conflict a commercialized gathering occurrence successful Downtown Los Angeles disconnected South Hope Street that started astatine 4 a.m. connected Sunday.

(Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)

The blaze was contained by 5:52 a.m. However, the building’s contents rekindled, said LAFD Chief Peter Hsiao.

As of 10 a.m., firefighters remained astatine the country “trying to region insubstantial from the gathering to halt it from catching connected fire,” Hsiao said.

By 10:30 a.m., a Times lensman astatine the country witnessed the building’s extortion collapse. By 11 a.m., the gathering was again engulfed successful flames.

The code is associated with Bluebird Office Supplies. A voicemail near for a fig listed for the concern proprietor was not returned immediately.

No 1 was wrong the gathering astatine the clip of the blaze, Middleton added.

The origin of the occurrence is nether investigation.