Morrison Hotel made famous by The Doors destroyed by fire while occupied by squatters

LOS ANGELES - Firefighters are investigating to determine if homeless people are responsible for a large fire that destroyed the historic Morrison Hotel Thursday in downtown Los Angeles. The former hotel, located at the intersection of Pico and Hope, has been vacant for about 10 years. https://citizen.com/-OF3M57SuYDtsLHNdT4K https://www.foxla.com/news/downtown-la-vacant-building-fire Around 11:20 a.m., more than 100 firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department were called to the four-story, nearly 100-year-old building that was erupting in massive flames. Cellphone video shared with FOX 11 shows at least one person trying to leave the property on an outside fire escape. Although the building is vacant, fire officials said there were some homeless people in the structure, and ladders were raised to the building's windows to help them exit. "In the fire department, we say there are no vacant buildings in the City of Los Angeles," said David Ortiz from LAFD. "A lot of the large, unhoused community uses these vacant buildings as their temporary residences. Several dozen [today] were seen self-evacuating at the time of the fire."