A small brush fire that started off a Southern California freeway ripped through a Mormon churchs gabled roof on Tuesday in Glassell Park and injured one firefighter. Teams of firefighters worked to douse the flames that could be seen through the triangular roof of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The fire was reported at 2:38 p.m. off the southbound Glendale (2) Freeway at North Verdugo Road, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire had burned about 1/4 of an acre as of 3 p.m. Its cause was not determined. A large portion of the churchs roof collapsed while firefighters were outside trying to save the structure from additional damage.
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