50 Firefighters Respond To Los Feliz Fire; Man Found Dead In Vehicle

LOS ANGELES, CA — The remains of a man were found inside a parked vehicle that — along with two other vehicles and a residential building — caught fire in Los Feliz Thursday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Extinguishing the blaze took extraordinary firefighting power after the LAFD first received a call at around 1:15 p.m. that three vehicles were on fire near Edgemont Street and Los Feliz Boulevard.

The blaze soon spread from the vehicles to a nearby residential building and threatened several more structures. It took 50 firefighters nearly an hour to access, confine and fully extinguish what LAFD's Brian Humphrey called "intense flames."

The county coroner will identify the man and determine his cause of death, according to the LAFD.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Thick black smoke from the fire was visible from Barnsdall Art Park, as seen in one eyewitness video.