Major Emergency Fire Consumes Downtown L.A. Business | August 21, 2022

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - A major emergency fire consumed a downtown Los Angeles flooring business early Sunday morning, that was originally believed to be on the 1600 block of East 14th Street, early Sunday morning, with unseasonal weather causing a strong and persistent smoke odor to linger across the greater Los Angeles area for more than a day. *That address has since been corrected to 1228 South Compton Avenue, but is not reflected in this video.* The fire was reported at 2:57 AM on August 21, 2022, bringing the first of more than 150 Los Angeles Fire Department responders to 1228 South Compton Avenue, where firefighters arrived quickly to find heavy smoke and fire within a 15,000 square foot U-shaped one-story metal clad commercial building housing C.Y. Flooring, a purveyor of wood, laminate and vinyl flooring products. Firefighters forced entry onto the property and into the well secured premises to battle fierce flames, which involved retail space and dense warehousing of flooring products within conjoined metal structures. As fire swept through the main building and into an annex, firefighters were forced to transition to defensive operations, successfully preventing fire from consuming the firm's office space or damaging a pair of immediately adjacent industrial buildings. The non-injury fire was brought under control in just 83 minutes with the extinguishment of active flame. No injuries were reported. With countless tons of smoldering debris and highly unstable building remnants, the LAFD assigned more than a dozen personnel to remain on scene through Sunday night, deploying heavy equipment, including excavators and the LAFD RS3 Robotic Firefighting Vehicle to overhaul the scene and further soak the hot and smoking debris until at least early Monday. The cause of the fire remains under active investigation.