Two people were injured Tuesday in a fire at a seven-story apartment building fire in the Vermont Knolls area of Los Angeles — a blaze fire officials said stemmed from an electric scooter’s lithium battery.

Thirty-four firefighters responded around 5:10 p.m. to the 8500 block of South Vermont Avenue to battle a residential fire that was knocked down in 22 minutes, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart.

Paramedics took a 10-year-old girl and a 70-year-old woman to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Hazardous materials personnel were called to the scene to investigate, which is customary in fires involving lithium-ion batteries, Stewart said.

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