LOS ANGELES - Firefighters with the Los Angeles Fire Department are battling a large fire at a vacant building in downtown LA. The fire broke out on the top floor of a four-story, nearly 100-year-old vacant building in the 1200 block of South Hope Street in the downtown area late Thursday morning.

Firefighters are working to put out a downtown Los Angeles vacant building fire Thursday, extended on their truck ladders, battling dense smoke as well. The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. at a four-story building at S.