A fire erupted inside of a 10th floor unit in an apartment building on Hollywood beach on Tuesday evening while the resident was out for a bike ride, Hollywood Fire Rescue said.
Firefighters were called to the building in the 300 block of North Surf Road and found the unit actively ablaze, fire rescue spokesperson Chai Kauffman said.
Live video from WPLG-Ch. 10 showed flames spreading through the windows and the rear sliding glass doors toward the balcony of the apartment, which is a corner unit situated beneath the building’s rooftop pool.
Firefighters had extinguished the blaze as of shortly after 6 p.m., Kauffman said. The man who lives in the apartment was not inside at the time it erupted.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday evening whether anyone was injured or whether the fire spread to other apartments.
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