A house fire sent black smoke billowing over Long Beach’s Belmont Shore neighborhood Wednesday afternoon.

The blaze, on Park Avenue near Broadway, started around 12:50 p.m. according to a notification from the Long Beach Fire Department.

Fire crews at the scene reported black smoke and heavy fire coming from a two-story home, Long Beach Fire Department spokesperson Jack Crabtree said.

Fire crews fighting a blaze at a Belmont Heights home on Park Avenue. Photo by Kat Schuster.

Nobody was inside the home, and nobody was injured in the blaze, according to Crabtree.

He said crews extinguished the fire within 15 minutes.

The cause of the blaze remains under investigation, Crabtree said.