ARSON SUSPECTED AT COIN LAUNDRY.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - A Lancaster self-serve laundry was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Tuesday, causing $650,000 in damage, officials said. The laundry, located at 45549 Beech beech, common name for the Fagaceae, a family of trees and shrubs mainly of temperate and subtropical regions in the Northern Hemisphere. The principal genera—Castanea (chestnut and chinquapin), Fagus (beech), and Quercus Ave., was closed when the fire started about 4 a.m. ``The incident is an 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. investigation and is being handled by the 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. ,'' said 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 Capt. John Santero san·te·ro n. A priest of Santeria. [American Spanish, from Spanish, cult priest, from santo, saint; see Santeria.] . Firefighters from Station 129 were the first on scene, followed by Station 33 in downtown Lancaster. Other stations were on scene within minutes of the 911 call and fought the 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)]. for more than 90 minutes before finally getting the flames knocked down. When the firefighters arrived, flames were already coming through the roof of the building, officials said. Firefighters were called back about five hours later when someone called 911 to report seeing smoke again coming from the debris inside the building. ``Someone saw a little smoke, but we can't get in there and tear up the scene because arson investigators have to be able to conduct their investigation,'' Santero said. Investigators estimated the damage at about $500,000 to the structure and about $150,000 damage to the building's contents. Arson investigators could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lancaster sheriff's station at (661) 948-8466. Greg Botonis, (661) 267-7802 gregory.botonis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Firefighters check the knocked-down roof of a self-serve laundry gutted gut n. 1. a. The alimentary canal or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach. b. The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut. 2. by a suspicious fire early Tuesday in Lancaster. (2 -- color) Some $650,000 damage was caused by the fire at this laundry, a fire that officials suspect was arson. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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