A longstanding church in Los Angeles' Echo Park neighborhood, which is currently vacant due to needed repairs, caught fire Thursday morning.

Firefighters were called to the Echo Park United Methodist Church on North Alvarado and Reservoir streets shortly before 7 a.m.

Aerial video from Sky5 showed smoke billowing out the front door of the two-story church as firefighters entered to extinguish the blaze.

"Fire crews forced access and located fire in a closet," the Los Angeles Fire Department stated in a news alert

The fire was knocked down in about 20 minutes, and no injuries were reported, the Fire Department said.

The Echo Park United Methodist Church (EPUMC) community has been in Echo Park since 1906, with the current church building being dedicated in 1924, according to the EPUMC w

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