BLAZE GUTS OFFICE BUILDING.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer GLENDALE - A two-story office building went up in flames In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal. early Wednesday, causing more than $1.7 million in damage and leaving 13 tenants to sort through burned and sodden sod·den adj. 1. Thoroughly soaked; saturated. 2. Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy. 3. Expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink. 4. Unimaginative; torpid. v. files. No injuries were reported in the fire at 3800 La Crescenta Ave. that started shortly after midnight in the office of a marriage counselor. Arson was being investigated as a possible cause, officials said. ``Our files are fine, they're just a bit wet ... but I don't think people want to know that their tax filings are on the sidewalk,'' said Diane Seely, office manager for CTS (1) (Clear To Send) The RS-232 signal sent from the receiving station to the transmitting station that indicates it is ready to accept data. Contrast with RTS. (2) (Common Type System) The data typing used in . Tax and Business Solutions as she leaned against a pickup truck full of soot-covered computers. ``There are a lot of people who were a lot worse off than us.'' Glendale arson investigator Mike Richardson The name Mike Richardson may refer to:
``Any time you have a fire after hours Adv. 1. after hours - not during regular hours; "he often worked after hours" it throws up a red flag,'' he said. It took 75 firefighters nearly two hours to control the blaze at Honolulu Road and La Crescenta Avenue. Wednesday afternoon, employees of the damaged businesses salvaged what they could from charred or soaked offices. ``This is not what we expected to do today,'' Seely said. ``Thank God it's not raining.'' Seely's tax business was on the lucky side of the building, where offices were drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. but not burned. Oscar Orozco's billing and collections office was not as fortunate. ``We lost everything in our office, but we have it all backed up on disk,'' Orozco said, glancing up to his 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. second-floor office and then to a bulldozer about to demolish the front wall of the building. ``We're trying to clear out the area of origin to re-create the cause,'' said fire Battalion Chief Mike Haney, pointing to the remains of the front window of the marriage counselor's office. Tom Marchant, a spokesman for the Glendale Fire Department, estimated that two-thirds of the building was a complete loss. ``They're definitely out of business there,'' Marchant said. The tenants in the building including tax businesses, attorneys, a marriage counselor and accountants. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Glendale firefighters are joined by crews from Burbank, Pasadena and 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 in the battle to put out a three-alarm fire in Glendale early Wednesday. Arson was suspected in the blaze that began inside in a marriage counselor's office. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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