{"id":497033,"date":"2026-10-15T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497033\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:02:08","slug":"basement-fire-at-east-hollywood-apartment-building-spreads-to-several-units-prompting-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/497033\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement fire at East Hollywood apartment building spreads to several units, prompting evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">EAST HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A fire erupted at a three-story apartment building in East Hollywood Thursday morning, forcing residents to evacuate and triggering a large response from firefighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fire started in the basement of the building on Kingsley Drive just before 4:30 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">About 160 firefighters responded to the scene to attack the flames, but within a short amount of time, the fire had spread to units on every floor of the structure. The LAFD said the fire was running in the walls of the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AIR7 was over the scene as smoke and flames shot out from windows of several units across the length of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One woman who was inside the building was taken to the hospital, fire officials said, but details on her condition were not available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Traffic in the area is expected to be impacted as a result of the fire. Drivers are urged to use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">DEVELOPING: We will add more details to this report as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A fire erupted at a three-story apartment building in East Hollywood Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[193076,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-497033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-193076","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}