Crews start clean-up as LA sits knee-deep in oil

Crews have cleaned up most of the 10,000 gallons of crude oil that sprayed on to Los Angeles streets after a high-pressure pipe burst.

Oil spilled over approximately half a mile and was knee-deep in some parts of the industrial area of Atwater Village near the border of Glendale, according to fire officials.

A handful of commercial businesses were affected, as well as a strip club that was evacuated.

Four people at a medical business were evaluated with respiratory complaints, and two people were transferred to a hospital.

An environmental cleaning company is sopping up the remaining oil and will use high-pressure hoses to wash the streets. Officials previously said 50,000 gallons had spilled.

Fire officials said the pipe burst at a transfer pumping station along a pipeline that runs from Bakersfield to Texas.