It took Los Angeles Firefighters close to an hour to knock down a greater alarm blaze that ran through a 75 by 100 foot one story commercial structure on December 24, 2005. The building housed "Grover Products," a metalwork manufacturing company in East Los Angeles.
Firefighters who were originally sent for a reported "alarm bells ringing" were later told that there were reports of smoke and dispatch filled out the assignment.
Firefighters first on scene encountered heavy fire showing, requesting several additional companies on top of the original assignment.
Firefighters that ascended to the roof for ventilation rapidly came back down as the entire building became fully involved. Fifty-foot flames consumed the building and its contents. The fire was extinguished by several ladder pipes, portable monitors and numerous handlines from outside the structure.
Firefighters also went to work protecting exposures, a small one-story attachment to the south and a larger one -story commercial structure to the west.
In all, approximately 109 Los Angeles Firefighters manning fifteen companies were dispatched to the scene. Damage was estimated as $200,000 to the structure and $500,000 to its contents. There were no reported injuries. The cause of the midnight blaze is under investigation.
