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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Crews working to put out the flames of a fire that engulfed a vacant building in southeast Houston on Tuesday evening.
Eyewitness News crews were on the way to another story at about 6:30 p.m. when ABC13 reporter Alex Bozarjian spotted the vacant building in flames.
Video captured by shows the vacant building, believed to have once housed HISD media services, swarmed in black smoke.
The Houston Fire Department said there were no reported injuries and hadn’t disclosed the cause of the fire.
The fire department posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the building fire at 6:43 p.m., urging drivers to avoid the area due to “heavy emergency traffic.”
@HoustonFire is currently on scene near Telephone & Griggs performing extinguishment efforts after receiving reports of a building on fire. No FF or civilian injuries have been reported. Please avoid the area due to heavy emergency traffic.@FireChiefofHFD
— Houston Fire Dept (@HoustonFire) April 2, 2024
Houston TranStar cameras captured the plume of smoke in the distance from I-45 and Telephone Road.