Small Kitchen Fire Closes Parts of Broadway Downtown

Firefighters have put out a small kitchen fire that sent smoke pumpeling into the air in downtown San Diego. 

The fire started around 1 p.m., fire officials said, on the 900 block of 5th Avenue near Broadway. Officials shut down Broadway between 4th and 5th and parts of F Street and those streets will remain closed for the moment as firefighters continue working. 

Firefighters propped a ladder up on the building and smoke could be seen coming from the building from several blocks away. 

No one was injured. 

The details of the fire are unclear. 

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