The dangerous situation was made worse by the items inside the building -- e-cigarettes, cigarettes and four tons of liquid nicotine.
A large, dangerous and explosive fire sparked in a building filled with nicotine, e-cigarettes and butane early Friday morning, prompting a hazardous materials response from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The building was determined to be a total loss even before firefighters had finished extinguishing the flames around 6 a.m., when flames could still be seen billowing from the top of the roof in Boyle Heights. The fire began around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, and firefighters responded to the commercial building on East 12th Street.
Flames were shooting through the roof when firefighters arrived, and the building was fully engulfed in fire.
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