A huge fire was filmed on video in downtown Los Angeles as it consumed an under construction seven story apartment complex where the 110 and 101 freeways meet. The blaze, which started at about 1:20a.m. at the Da Vinci apartment complex, is being treated as an arson. Though there were no serious injuries, the fire also damaged the LA County Health Services building, Dept. of Parks and Rec. building, and LA Department of Water and Power building, causing 160 windows to explode from the intense heat and a freeway sign scaffold to melt and collapse. The developer, G.H. Palmer Associates, had come under a lot of criticism for the very large faux-italian apartment complexes that they have constructed around DTLA, and the proposed pedestrian walkways that they had sought to build that would link the buildings so inhabitants would not have to deal with the local residents of DTLA, some of whom are transients or homeless. The cleanup shut down the adjacent freeway into the morning, and we discuss what a fire department spokesperson called, “…a historic fire,” on the Lip News with Gabriel Mizrahi and Jackie Koppell.
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