Firefighter falls through floor while battling blaze in abandoned Hollywood apartment

A Los Angeles firefighter was injured when he fell through the floor of an abandoned apartment building that caught fire in Hollywood early Tuesday morning.

The fire was reported just after 2 a.m. at the two-story boarded-up complex in the 7700 block of Hollywood Boulevard.

Heavy fire was showing at the rear of the building, which had already been damaged in previous fires, Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Cody Weireter said.

Plywood on doors and windows made entry difficult for firefighters, who initially took a defensive posture but put out the blaze in a little over 30 minutes.

One firefighter was injured after eventually making his way into the structure.

“We had a firefighter fall through the floor that was conducting a primary search to see if we had any victims inside,” said Weireter, who described the injury as non-life threatening.

No victims were located inside the structure but video from the scene showed a firefighter handing a blanket to a naked man standing in some bushes.

Investigators were later seen talking to the man but his connection to the fire, if any, was unclear.

The cause of the fire remains unknown, but Weireter did say that the blaze is “under active investigation from our arson counter-terrorism section.”