Would you want to enter this? LB Firefighters prepare to do so in the predawn darkness on Thanksgiving morning.

Screen save above courtesy Loudlabs.com.

The heartbreaking aftermath was visible as dawn broke.

The blaze spread from a second floor unit to the third floor, escalating to a third alarm [three firefighting companies on scene.] It could have been much worse in the densely occupied residential complex. Firefighters managed to contain the fire to two units (with a third unit damaged in venting the roof.)

LBPD Public Information Officer/Firefighter-Paramedic Jake Heflin provided LBREPORT.com with this on-scene report at roughly 6:50 a.m., click here.

Resources were pulled from all across the city. On LBFD units, the number on the fire apparatus (engine, truck, etc.) corresponds to the number of the fire station.

Station 11 = 160 E. Market St.

Station 5 = 7575 E. Wardlow Rd.

Station 1 = 100 Magnolia Ave. (Civic Center) and L.A. County unit (mutual aid)

Station 17 [which no longer has a fire engine under Council enacted budget cuts] = 2241 Argonne Ave.

Station 9 = 3917 Long Beach Blvd., Station 4 = 411 Loma Ave.

Station 12 = 1199 E. Artesia Blvd, Station 9 = 3917 LB Blvd.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. We'll add further as we learn it.