Crime & Safety

Photo: Car Burns West of Silver Lake Monday

The vehicle caught on fire on Burns Avenue near Virgil early Wednesday evening.

 

Boyle Heights Beat sent us the above photo of a car on fire.

It burned just west of Hoover Street in Silver Lake early Wednesday evening.

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In a series of Tweets, BHB told us that  car parked outside ICS Auto Body at 4256 Burns Avenue caught fire, possibly damaging another car parked next to it.

BHB said it took fire department officials about 10 minutes to arrive to put out the blaze.

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Apparently, the owner was not on the scene.

Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch has reached out to the Los Angeles Police Department about what caused the blaze.

An earlier version of this story said the car burned EAST of Silver Lake. We apologize for our ongoing geographical challenge.


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