L.A. City Firefighters were aided in putting out a fire in the Castellammare area this morning with the frequent downpours of rain.
Photo: TOM NACCARATO
A housefire was reported at 9:54 a.m. at 17840 Lecco Lane in the Castellammare area of Pacific Palisades.
According to LAFD’s spokesperson Brian Humphrey, it was an offensive attack against the flames in the rear portion of the hillside home.
It took 47 firefighters 50 minutes to confine and fully extinguish the fire.
The home is a three-level 2,844 sq. ft. descending hillside home that was built in 1993.
The house was unoccupied at the time of the fire. There were no injuries to firefighters. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Firefighters from stations 23, 19 and 63 were dispatched to the site.
The picture shows the wrong house. It’s the house next door to this one that had the fire.