NEW ORLEANS, LA : One injured after vehicle crash causes three-alarm fire in Federal City on Saturday, 6th March 2021

Firefighters in New Orleans battled a three-alarm fire in Federal City Saturday afternoon that left one person injured.

The New Orleans Fire Department responded to a call of a vehicle fire at 425 O’Bannon Street at 12:30 p.m. They were told a person was trapped inside of the vehicle.

After arriving at the scene, firefighters found a mid-size, single passenger SUV that crashed into a building across the street from the New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy. The vehicle burst into flames and caused the building to also catch fire.

Two alarms were immediately called.

A third alarm was called around 1:40 p.m. after embers from the first building that was on fire, a vacant large single-story, wood-frame building, flew onto another building nearby and began burning the roof. The second building, a large two-story brick building, was also vacant and unoccupied.

NOFD worked to prevent further damage to the second building.

The fire was brought under control just after 2 p.m.

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