BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Fire Department is investigating an abandoned apartment building fire along Florida Boulevard as arson. 

According to fire officials, crews responded to the fire at the Summer Grove Apartments, which are boarded up and unoccupied, around 9:25 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the back of one of the buildings. 

The property had no utilities connected when the fire broke out, and firefighters contained the blaze to the back of one of the buildings by the time it was under control at 10:47 p.m.

BRFD investigators say the fire was intentionally set and will be investigated as arson.