{"id":500746,"date":"2026-10-19T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500746\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:50:09","slug":"fire-burns-through-roof-of-downtown-los-angeles-commercial-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500746\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire burns through roof of downtown Los Angeles commercial building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large fire ripped through the roofs of several downtown Los Angeles commercial packing businesses on Sunday night before firefighters could gain control of the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Fire Department officials said it was first reported around 6:40 p.m. at a row of commercial businesses in the 900 block of E. Pico Boulevard, just south of South Central Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters said the blaze burned in a row of businesses measuring 40 feet by 150 feet, and flames began showing through the roof by 7 p.m., forcing crews to shift into a defensive mode, meaning they fought the flames from the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crews reported knockdown just before 8:10 p.m., nearly an hour and a half after they first received the 911 call, LAFD officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LAFD officials notified the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, the Los Angeles Police Department and Southern California Gas Company about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire ripped through the roofs of several downtown Los Angeles commercial packing businesses on Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-500746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","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\/500746","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=500746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}