2 CONDOS GUTTED FIREFIGHTERS, SHERIFF'S INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT ARSON.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - An afternoon fire that gutted two College Terrace Park town homes and damaged a third is being investigated as possible arson. No one was injured in the blaze, officials said, because the occupants of the two-story town home where the fire started were away, and the second gutted home was vacant. There was minor structural damage in a third unit of the four-plex building, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. fire officials. A woman visiting her mother in the undamaged unit of the building called 911 to report the fire, officials said. ``We found an area downstairs in the occupied two-story where there was a start point,'' said Battalion Chief Jim Jeffries Jim Jeffries may refer to:
The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La . ``We are investigating possible multiple start points. It's definitely suspicious.'' Fire officials say the sheriff's arson investigators will work with Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County fire investigators to try to determine the cause, but it could be several days before all the needed information is collected. Fire officials said they were not immediately able to contact the residents of the home where the blaze broke out just about 1 p.m. in the 2850 block of West Avenue J-4 at the College Terrace Park condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. complex. There are 56 homes in four-plex buildings - each with a pair of two- story units and a pair of single-story homes - in the complex. When firefighters arrived, flames were leaping from windows on both floors of a two-story town home and had already spread into the attic and the neighboring two-story unit. It took firefighters nearly an hour to extinguish the blaze and several more hours to tear through the walls and attic to put out all smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. embers em·ber n. 1. A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire. 2. embers The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire. . CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) A firefighter looks over debris from a blaze that gutted two town houses and damaged a third Tuesday in the 2850 block of West Avenue J-4 at the College Terrace Park town-home complex. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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