Crime & Safety
Fire Damages Church In Los Angeles
It took almost an hour to douse the greater-alarm fire in the Heights area.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Firefighters Friday extinguished a greater-alarm fire in a church in the Harvard Heights area of Los Angeles.
The fire was reported at 12:51 p.m. Friday in the two-story building in the 2000 block of South Oxford Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
"Sixty firefighters extinguished the fire in 49 minutes with no injuries reported," an LAFD statement said.
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"Crews had to locate and access fire within walls of one portion of the large church building and chase it through to ensure there were no pockets of fire remaining," the statement said. "The primary and secondary searches are clear with no one located inside."
The cause of he fire was under investigation, the LAFD reported.
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"The structure is (doing business as) a church," the LAFD statement said. "Therefore, per protocol, the House of Worship Task Force was notified."
The Los Angeles House of Worship Arson Task Force is comprised of personnel from the following agencies: the LAFD; the Los Angeles Police Department; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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