Two businesses in a strip mall in Baldwin Park took the brunt of a fast-moving fire on Tuesday morning.
At the corner of Ramona Boulevard and Syracuse Avenue, outside of a commercial strip mall, a Mexican restaurant and flower shop were engulfed in flames.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department said firefighters were dispatched to the scene around 12:55 a.m. for a second-alarm commercial fire. When crews arrived, they saw heavy smoke coming from the strip mall and they said the smoke was pressurized, which suggests the fire may have been burning in the attic for some time before it was spotted…