Crews were called to a “Greater Alarm” structure fire that erupted for the second time at a former private school in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles early Tuesday morning.
The fire was reported around 2:30 a.m. at the one-story building located on the 1300 block of Shatto Street.
Video from Citizen.com showed the massive flames and dark smoke rising from the boarded-up school as firefighters arrived.
The intense flames from the “fully involved” structure initially kept firefighters in a defensive mode, the Los Angeles Fire Department posted in a news alert.
It took nearly 50 firefighters to eventually douse the flames in a little more than 30 minutes. The fire crew also kept the flames from spreading to any adjacent buildings.
The cause of the fire at the old school, which had already been damaged in a previous fire, remains under investigation.
