Railroad Car Full Of Amazon Packages Catches Fire In LA, 2nd Blaze This Week

LOS ANGELES, CA — The contents of an Amazon shipping container caught fire aboard a freight train in Boyle Heights Tuesday, the second such boxcar blaze in less than a week.

The fire was reported at around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday in or near the Union Pacific rail yard at Mission Road and Cesar Chavez Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Crews arrived to find a double-stack railroad car with fire in the top container, the LAFD said.

Fire crews were coordinating with railroad personnel and the Los Angeles Police Department as a crane was called in "to move the container down to ground level and facilitate full extinguishment," said public information officer Lyndsey Lantz. "Hazmat companies are actively monitoring air quality."

Video aired by KTLA shows a plume of smoke rising from the fire inside the shipping container.

An Amazon container aboard a freight car caught fire east of the same location on Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It took over an hour for firefighters to extinguish that blaze, which engulfed dozens of Amazon packages inside the railcar, CBS Los Angeles reported.

No injuries were reported in either case.

City News Service contributed to this report.