Los Angeles, United States - October 20, 2024

10/20/2024 04:23 pm (GMT-0700) | NORTH HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles City firefighters were dispatched to a large outdoor fire shortly before 4 p.m. in the 11100 block of Vanowen Street.
Upon arrival, crews requested additional resources, according to Capt. Adam VanGerpen of the LAFD public information office.
“This was visible all over the valley,” VanGerpen said. “This put a very thick black smoke. That was because they're doing a lot of movie props here. There's a lot of fiberglass. The fiberglass is what puts off the massive amount of smoke.”
Burbank Airport Fire Department joined the firefight as a large plume of black smoke began to blanket the San Fernando Valley’s border between the cities of Burbank and Los Angeles.
Airport crash trucks, the oversized florescent-colored firefighting apparatus typically seen battling plane crash fires, augmented the resources firefighters had on hand, VanGerpen said.
“They have 1,500 gallons of water,” he said. “They can mix it with foam. So they were called out in case we needed them.”
Fifty-five firefighters battled the blaze for four minutes shy of an hour.
“We used heavy streams on this,” VanGerpen said. “We protected all the exposures around there. So the buildings that were surrounded by this were all protected. So this was basically contained just to an outside fire, but that thick black smoke is what all the residents saw all across the valley.”
The captain said the fire involved a series of large fiberglass movie props in an outdoor storage area.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
INC#1152; 04:23PM; 11115 W Vanowen St; https://bit.ly/3BSdhX8; North Hollywood; This incident is at the Greater Alarm status. Firefighters are battling a very large, exterior fire which is adjacent to rail road tracks as well as a commercial building with placards which indicate potential hazardous materials. LAFD HazMat squad is enroute. ; FS 89; Batt 14; Valley Bureau; Council District 2; BC10 BC12 BC14 BC5 CM40 CM42 E102 E227 E260 E278 E289 E298 E60 E77 E86 E87 E88 E89 EM14 EM17 HR3 RA86 RA889 RA89 SQ87 T27 T60 T78 T89 T98 UR27 UR88; CH9; 17 18; Margaret Stewart