A mattress warehouse was gutted by a two-alarm fire in Paramount early Thursday, reduced to a tangle of melted steel beams, burned vehicles and smoldering debris, reports NBC Los Angeles (http://bit.ly/1ykHoZB)
Firefighters arrived to find a single story commercial building alight after responding to the fire at the 7300 block of East Madison Street at around 12:30 a.m, Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
Within 10 minutes the fire was upgraded to a two-alarm incident and the emergency service personel went into defensive mode. The roof of the 10,000-square-foot building eventually collapsed, but no one was inside at the time.
“If we were in there and those collapsed, we could have been seriously injured or killed,” LA County Fire Capt. Brian Jordan said.
