Abandoned car wash on Lori Burgess burns down, BRFD investigating what started the fire

BATON ROUGE - An abandoned car wash along Lori Burgess Avenue was destroyed in a fire on Sunday.

The Baton Rouge Fire Department said the vacant building on Lori Burgess near Kentucky Street, which was once "Friendly Car Wash," caught on fire around 12:45 p.m.

It took firefighters 18 minutes to put the flames out, but the building was declared a total loss.