Fire engulfs Mt. Washington mansion

Fire destroyed a large hillside home Thursday night in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Neighbors watch as firefighters extinguish the remnants of a fire that tore through a large hillside home Thursday night in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Firefighters use a ladder to access a large hillside home that burned Thursday night in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Members of a Los Angeles Fire Department search and rescue team walk around house struck by fire Thursday night in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Tenants of the Mt. Washington home gather outside as firefighters battle the flames.

Tenants of the three-story home that burned down talk to a firefighter as other firefighters battle the blaze.

Firefighters battle the blaze that engulfed a Mount Washington home.

Tenants of the Mt. Washington home embrace as firefighters battle the blaze.

The fire was reported in a home in the 4000 block of North Sea View Avenue in the Mt. Washington neighborhood.