Over 100 firefighters battled a blaze that engulfed an old courthouse near Dodger Stadium Saturday night. The massive blaze sent large plumes of dark billowing smoke into the air and was seen by thousands of fans attending a game at nearby Dodger Stadium.

Sixteen fire companies were called Saturday to a fire in an old courthouse building at 1158 N. San Fernando Road in Los Angeles’s Glassell Park neighborhood, the LA Fire Department said. The fire reported at 5:55 p.m. sent up a plume of smoke in the area east of the 5 Freeway and north of the 110 Freeway.

A large fire on the border of Glassell Park and Cypress Park sent thick gray plumes of smoke rising over Dodger Stadium Saturday evening.

It took more than 100 firefighters to battle the fire, which left the 20,000-square-foot building that was once a courthouse structurally unsound, crews said.

Over 100 firefighters battled a massive fire that engulfed an old courthouse near Dodger Stadium Saturday night. Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the one-story building, located on the 1100 block of North San Fernando Road in Glassell Park,

Firefighters are working to put out a massive blaze inside an old courthouse building in Glassell Park. The fire erupted shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday at the building in the 1100 block of North San Fernando Road.