Firefighter Injured, Neighbors Displaced by East Hollywood Inferno
Sunday, June 3, 2018
LAFD Spokesperson: Brian Humphrey
Scene of a major emergency blaze in East Hollywood early June 3, 2018.
Photo Credits:
Creative Commons Licensed for your use: LAFD Photo | Cody WeireterEAST HOLLYWOOD-
It took 118 Los Angeles Firefighters just 74 minutes to fully extinguish a predawn conflagration that consumed remnants of a two story strip mall and displaced more than a dozen neighborning residents - before sending one of their own to the hospital early Sunday morning. 
The Los Angeles Fire Department was summoned at 4:38 AM on June 3, 2018 to 4718 West Fountain Avenue in East Hollywood, where firefighters arrived quickly to a vacant shopping center, significantly damaged in a March 2017 fire, fully ablaze.
Teams of firefighters successfully limited the inferno's penetration of an adjoining 4 story apartment building to the south, where only eight of the 32 units sustained any degree of fire damage.
There were no civilian injuries, and LAFD Canine Search Teams later found no trace of human remains beneath the tons of smoldering debris from the strip mall, that collapsed at the height of the fire. As the result of smoke and heat damage to the adjacent Mount Vernon Apatments at 1269 North Vermont Avenue, fifteen residents were provided temporary needs assistance by the American Red Cross.
One LAFD firefighter sustained a non life-threatening hip injury during the intense firefight, and was temporarily placed off-duty to receive medical care. Monetary loss from the fire is still being tabulated, while the cause of this major emergency fire remains under active investigation.
Dispatched Units: E235 E35 T35 RA835 E482 RA82 E6 E220 T20 BC5 BC11 RA35 E13 E52 E56 E227 T27 E250 T50 E211 T11 E203 T3 CM22 EM11 BC2 E27 UR27 RA27 HR3 UR88 BC1 EA1 E10 E15 E260 T60 E229 T29 AR2 PI1 RA6 EM1 EM14 RA52 PI2 PI4 PH1
