$400,000 IN DAMAGE INVESTIGATORS SEEK FIVE IN ARSON PROBE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - Arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. investigators said Tuesday that they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. at least five people seen running from a partially constructed home that was at the center of a fire that caused more than $400,000 in damage. The Monday evening blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. destroyed three unfinished homes and damaged eight other unfinished homes and two occupied homes, officials said Tuesday. ``We have some witnesses who saw some people running from the scene just prior to the fire,'' said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. arson investigator Greg Everett. ``We are continuing with the arson investigation. We have some very good leads on this.'' Everett declined to release a description of the people seen running from the home. The blaze broke out about 5:30 p.m. among 12 unfinished homes near Avenue R-12 and 55th Street East. The homes were about 80 percent complete, with their wooden frames erected but no exterior stucco stucco (stŭk`ō), in architecture, a term loosely applied to various kinds of plasterwork, both exterior and interior. It now commonly refers to a plaster or cement used for the external coating of buildings, most frequently employed in . Two other homes, already occupied, on the east side of the blaze suffered damage to their back walls from the intense heat, officials said. One resident suffered minor burns while using a garden hose to try to protect his home, officials said. Neighbors said they assumed that the fire was started by youngsters because they were frequently seen inside the houses and some had been caught breaking windows by a construction official. Arson investigators are asking anyone who might have more information on the blaze to contact their main office in Whittier at (562) 946-7222. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Investigators are looking for at least five people in the burning of houses under construction near 55th Street East. (2 -- color) Firefighters hose down Verb 1. hose down - water with a hose; "hose the lawn" hose irrigate, water - supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams; "Water the fields" a burning house under construction in the Diamond Crest development Monday evening. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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