A structure fire was reported at 5505 S Alameda St.
According to the LAFD
, Fire Station 21 was associated with the incident.
A Neighborhood With a History of Commercial Blazes
Monday's fire is not the first time a commercial structure has gone up in Central-Alameda. The Los Angeles Fire Department has previously described a separate blaze at 2122 South Long Beach Avenue, where a vehicle fire spread into a nearby one-story commercial building. In that incident, the department says the incident commander ordered all crews out of the structure and shifted the operation from offensive to defensive after conditions inside worsened.
The department also reported a different structure fire at 2122 S Central Av back on May 31, 2026, logged as incident 1281 at 5:06 p.m. That fire was extinguished by 52 firefighters in 25 minutes, and no injuries were reported in that case.
Earlier Central-Alameda Fire Required More Than 80 Firefighters
Central-Alameda has also seen large-scale commercial fires in years past. Hoodline previously reported that a fire tore through a strip mall at 1760 E Vernon Ave in January 2025, where more than 80 firefighters needed an hour and 15 minutes to put out the flames, with no injuries reported in that incident either.
