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

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

The blaze was reported about 4 a.m. astatine the two-story building pinch 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 protect mode and utilized a remote-suppression robot to participate the building, LAFD spokesperson Jennifer Middleton said. Arson and emergency aerial units were besides requested to the scene.

Los Angeles occurrence section firefighters conflict a commercialized building 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 segment “trying to region insubstantial from the building to extremity it from catching connected fire,” Hsiao said.

By 10:30 a.m., a Times photographer astatine the segment witnessed the building’s tile collapse. By 11 a.m., the building was again engulfed successful flames.

The reside is associated pinch Bluebird Office Supplies. A voicemail near for a number listed for the business proprietor was not returned immediately.

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

The origin of the occurrence is nether investigation.