Via USA Today:

A massive fire at a Los Angeles construction site the size of a city block shut down sections of two major freeways for hours early Monday.

Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze, which broke out about 1:10 a.m. PT and could be seen for miles.

“This is a historic fire, what we as firefighters would call a career fire. It’s huge,” Fire Department spokesman David Ortiz told NBC News. “I really can’t remember a building fire this big and I have been with the department for 13 years.”

The fire, which shut sections of the 110 and 101 freeways, was being fed by wood framing at a planned seven-story, 1.3 million-square-foot luxury apartment complex. Ortiz said he didn’t think anyone was living or working there when the fire started.

Fire officials said two other buildings were also damaged, including several floors of a 16-story office tower.

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Here’s a link to an Instagram of it, showing how it blocked the freeway.

No indication of the cause yet, although the building where it started was under construction.

ISIS has noticed:

Translation from the Indonesion “This is what LA looks like now”.

Second fire:

WESTLAKE DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A fire erupted at a commercial building in Westlake District Monday morning as crews were working on another major fire just blocks away.

More than 100 firefighters responded to the blaze at the two-story building on the 2800 block of West 7th Street around 4:09 a.m.

There are about 10 businesses in the building. The back portion of the structure was being renovated for apartment use.

No one was inside the building when the blaze started, but one civilian was treated for smoke inhalation and released at the scene, according to fire officials.

The flames broke out as firefighters were battling a different blaze at an apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles.

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