Los Angeles, CA | A fire broke out in Lincoln Heights, one of the City’s oldest and low-income neighborhoods in a commercial manufacturing site around 2000 hours this evening.

Firefighters originally responded to a fire with unknown substances inside plastic barrels located on the exterior wall of the commercial building in the 1800 Block of Hancock Street.  Later it was discovered this business is the ASAP Auto Wrecking Yard, a scrap salvage yard approximately 200 x 200 which a fairly large size.

Fire was seen blasting out of the area with large columns of smoke in the air reported by many across Twitter using the hashtag #lincolnheights.  Pretty amazing footage and photos out there as well.

Fire crews had the fire knocked down around 2110 Hours say LAFD. There were currently no injuries reported and no evacuations in progress.

The LAFD states it took 97 Firefighters 54 minutes to knock down the fire.  No injuries or structure damage occurred.

Bulk of the flames was in the auto dismantling yard with possible storage / water reactive scrap.  A possible additional unknown type of commercial building may have been sizeably impacted by the fire.  The storage of 55-gallon plastic barrels contained pickles / brine.  The burning barrels added to the thick smoke in the area.

Cause is under investigation.

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