Crews battled a fire at a commercial building near the 10 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning.

The flames were burning through the roof when firefighters arrived around 7 a.m. at the one-story vacant building on East Violet Street, the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert.

The fire was intense enough that crews were forced to take a defensive position while battling the blaze.

Sky5 was over the scene at 7:30 a.m. as crews appeared to be getting a handle on the fire.

The LAFD declared the incident a “knockdown” roughly 10 minutes later.

About 28 firefighters took just under 40 minutes to extinguish the flames, the Fire Department said.

No one was injured in the incident, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

A growing memorial can be seen outside of a medical clinic in Woodland Hills where a 61-year-old doctor was gunned down in what some believe may have been a targeted killing.  

The victim was identified as Hamid Mirshojae, a doctor who worked at the Warner Plaza Medical Center located at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Oxnard Street. 

He was walking to his car on Aug. 23 when an unknown suspect approached him and shot him multiple times at around 5:34 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. 

Witnesses heard gunshots and saw a body on the ground in the parking lot. Mirshojae was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. 

“He’s been full of love. He’s been full of care,” Khedhar Quintero, a former patient, told KTLA’s Chris Wolfe. “He doesn’t care that you’re just another number in his lobby, he cares about your future as well.”  

Many of his patients referred to him simply as Dr. Hamid. 

“He’s been my doctor for 15 years, he made me feel better,” Gloria Sera told KTLA. “He was from Iran, and I don’t know if he was telling me the truth, but last time I came, he said he had just gotten married.”  

Close friends tell KTLA that the doctor’s wife and 6-month-old baby were in Turkey with family at the time of the deadly shooting. Mirshojae also reportedly has three children from a previous marriage.  

According to an online biography, the doctor had more than two decades of experience providing urgent and emergency care and more than 10 years in addiction medicine.  

“His patients include celebrities, movie stars, athletes and many people from different walks of life,” the bio noted.  

“He helped a lot of people with detox,” Quintero said. “Who knows what they could’ve been going through. He could’ve changed something in their life. He could’ve done something different that they didn’t like, and someone wanted him removed from this world unfortunately.”

Speculation around the killing is that Mirshojae was gunned down in a targeted fashion and authorities appear to be following that theory in their investigation.  

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call LAPD’s Valley Bureau homicide detectives at 818-374-9550. 

During non-business hours or on weekends, calls can be directed to the LAPD at 877-527-3247. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or go directly to lacrimestoppers.org. 

In order to fix its budget deficit, the City of Orange has elected to slash funding for several sectors, including the school crossing guard program. 

The city is responsible for filling the positions, and there were 14 part–time crossing guards at schools across the city – but not all – before the program was cut. 

According to city officials, not having the crossing guards saves Orange around $425,000 a year. 

It’s not just patrols outside schools that have been nixed; Orange has also cut out some annual events to save money, including the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.   

Orange Mayor Dan Slater told KTLA’s Chip Yost that they also reduced funding for the library and essentially had a “hiring freeze” and were simply not filling open positions in an attempt to reduce spending. The cuts have saved the city about $5.5 million, which still doesn’t cover the entire $19 million deficit. 

“[The deficit] is not anything new – we’ve had budget deficits going back to about 2010 – but we are finally trying to address that,” Mayor Slater said. “Tough times call for tough measures, and we can’t spend money we don’t have.” 

Budget cuts aren’t the only tactic officials are using to minimize the deficit. City residents will be able to vote on a citywide sales tax increase on the November ballot to raise more revenue. 

Officials also said they are looking for sponsors for events such as the annual Christmas tree lighting so that they can keep community traditions alive.