AUTOMOBILE FIRE SPREADS TO GARAGE IN LANCASTER.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A car fire spread to the owner's home early Thursday, causing $30,000 in damage to the structure that was built by his parents nearly 50 years ago, officials said. Jim Clover clover, any plant of the genus Trifolium, leguminous hay and forage plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Most of the species are native to north temperate or subtropical regions, and all the American cultivated forms have been introduced from said he returned home about 1 a.m. from his job in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and parked his diesel-fueled 1983 Cutlass Supreme in the carport CARPORT Cardiology A clinical trial–Coronary Artery Restenosis Prevention on Repeated Thromboxane-Antagonism Study that evaluated thromboxane A2-receptor blockade in preventing restenosis after PCTA in Pts with CAD. . ``I had only been inside for a few minutes,'' said Clover, who lives in the 43900 block of 12th Street West. ``I smelled smoke and came outside and saw my car on fire.'' Clover first searched for a shovel and then grabbed his garden hose as he tried to put out the fire. But the flames quickly spread to a connecting garage with a guest room overhead. ``Once the flames got to the wood, it just took off,'' Clover said. Fire officials said the fire may have started from faulty electrical equipment A piece of electrical equipment is a machine, powered by electricity and usually consists of an enclosure, a variety of electrical components and often a power switch. Examples of Electrical Equipment
``It's just a shock,'' Clover said. ``You come home and your house is fine and 10 minutes later your car is gone and your house is in danger. It just tells you how fast things can happen.'' Clover said that his parents built the home in 1951 using interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st concrete block. At one time, his family owned 13 acres surrounding the home. Now Clover is left with about one-third of an acre and is contemplating a move to the San Fernando Valley. |
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