On Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 8:52 p.m., 12 companies of Los Angeles firefighters, one LAFD rescue ambulance, one arson unit, one hazardous materials team, one EMS battalion captain, one battalion chief officer command team, one division chief officer command team, under the direction of Assistant Chief Michael Fulmis responded to to a water flow alarm upgraded to a greater alarm structure fire at The Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring St. in the Civic Center.

Firefighters arrived promptly to an alarm condition and reports of smoke in a non-occupied ninth-floor to find that sprinklers extinguished a small fire. Due to the large amount of water generated by the sprinklers, LAFD companies evacuated water from the ninth, eighth and seventh floors. There were no reported injuries. The cause is under investigation. The dollar loss is still being tabulated.