DEVELOPING: Firefighters battling flames at a West Los Angeles high-rise building. - NBCLA
Details about how the fire, which began at about 8:30 a.m., started were not immediately available.
The fire is about three blocks east of a building that burned earlier Wednesday in Brentwood. In that fire, remodeling was taking place on three lower floors. A tent supporting scaffolding caught fire and moved quickly through the building. Fifty occupants were safely evacuated.injured five people. The blaze began in a unit on the 11th floor, and sent thick smoke into the building's upper floors.
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