r/LosAngeles • u/2fast2nick Downtown • 1d ago

Fire Morrison Hotel, the day after

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u/da_muffinman 1d ago

What was the cause

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u/2fast2nick Downtown 1d ago

I think it takes arson investigators more than 12 hours to figure out.. but my guess, it was full of homeless people, building has no utilities, it’s been freezing cold. Soo

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u/HereForTheZipline_ 1d ago

Wait it was already just sitting empty? Like do you mean it was full of homeless people just because it was basically abandoned, or that the city was using it as temporary housing

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u/2fast2nick Downtown 1d ago

They busted open the boarding and went in. Not housing.

They’re out there welding a new gate now

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u/HereForTheZipline_ 1d ago

Got it, damn

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u/littlelostangeles Santa Monica 9h ago

It was emptied in 2008 after decades as an SRO. Previous owners wanted to turn it into a luxury hotel and savagely gutted the place.

The homeless people who fled the building were most likely squatting.