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Firefighters are working to put out a downtown Los Angeles vacant building fire Thursday, extended on their truck ladders, battling dense smoke as well. The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. at a four-story building at S.

Firefighters with the Los Angeles Fire Department are responding to a fire at a four story building in the downtown Los Angeles area on Thursday.

Fire crews are battling a fire at a four-story building in downtown Los Angeles. The fire was reported at S. Hope Street and W. Pico Boulevard just after 11 a.m., KCAL News reported.

The fire broke out on the top floor of a four-story, nearly 100-year-old vacant building in the 1200 block of South Hope Street in the downtown area late Thursday morning. Although the building is vacant,