BLAZE EVICTS SOME DOCTORS, COUNTY OFFICES CAUSE BEING INVESTIGATED IN PEACHLAND AVENUE FIRE.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, -- A fire burned half the roof of a medical building and caused at least $2 million in damage, leaving workers on Sunday wondering how they will go on providing services. Investigators are trying to determine what caused the blaze Saturday evening at the two-story Medical Center building at 25050 Peachland Avenue, which houses a few medical and dental offices and divisions of the county's public-health and mental-health agencies, as well as a division of the county Assessor's Office. Tom Schoenbaum and his brother Paul, both dentists, have shared a ground-floor office for more than 15 years. Water and smoke damaged the office, but the flames that ravaged rav·age v. rav·aged, rav·ag·ing, rav·ages v.tr. 1. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate: A tornado ravaged the town. 2. the top floor didn't reach it. ``We lucked out -- well, lucked out if you can call it lucking out for (needing restoration) construction of this magnitude,'' said Tom Schoenbaum. The fire, which broke out shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday, caused at least $2 million in damages and required nearly 75 firefighters to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. it, said Melanie Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , supervising dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. with the county Fire Department. The loss could total more after medical equipment is valued, she said. On Sunday, many who work in the building milled around the parking lot, where the odor of smoke was still heavy. They peered through broken windows to the blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. top floor, where fire destroyed half the roof and burned away walls, leaving only charred braces and struts A framework for writing Web-based applications in Java that supports the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. Struts is deployed as JSP pages using special tags from the Struts tag library, which includes routines for building forms, HTML rendering, storing and retrieving data and bent at odd angles. Psychiatrist Jennifer Heitkamp shouted joyously when someone brought out her glasses and patient prescriptions from the damaged building. For Tom Schoenbaum, the fact that most of his patient charts were undamaged will make work easier. The county's Department of Mental Health serves 800 clients a year out of the building. ``I think the staff are concerned, but they're all here together providing support for one another,'' said Robin Kay, deputy director for the department, who was on site Sunday. No one was injured in the blaze, which firefighters extinguished ex·tin·guish tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es 1. To put out (a fire, for example); quench. 2. To put an end to (hopes, for example); destroy. See Synonyms at abolish. 3. about 9:40 p.m. Saturday. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 WHO TO CALL Department of Mental Health clients who used the office can call (800) 854-7771 for information on where to go for care. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color -- ran in SAC edition only) Joe Nunez, construction superintendent, speaks with a tenant, Scott Gahret, outside a building damaged by fire Sunday. Alex Collins/Special to the Daily News Box: WHO TO CALL (see text) |
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