FAMILY UNHURT IN BLAZE; HOUSE FIRE IN SAUGUS CAUSES $100,000 IN DAMAGE.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Two people escaped injury Monday when flames sparked by an electrical malfunction mal·func·tion v. 1. To fail to function. 2. To function improperly. n. 1. Failure to function. 2. Faulty or abnormal functioning. broke out in the garage of a two-story house and spread to the attic, causing $100,000 in damage, officials said. 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)]. in the 28700 block of Raintree Lane was reported about 6:15 a.m., and firefighters had it under control 25 minutes later, said Inspector Henry Rodriguez of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. 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 . Heavy smoke and fire were visible when firefighters arrived at the home. A woman and child in the home had fled unharmed and didn't need medical attention, said county fire Capt. Donald Scott. ``The man who owns the house had . . . left for work already when the fire broke out. The wife and the child were upstairs asleep, and they were awakened a·wak·en tr. & intr.v. a·wak·ened, a·wak·en·ing, a·wak·ens To awake; waken. See Usage Note at wake1. [Middle English awakenen, from Old English by the sound of explosions from the garage,'' Scott said. ``The fellow had an extensive gun collection'' in the garage. Two 1980s model cars parked in the garage also were destroyed in the blaze, and the house sustained smoke damage as well, Scott said. Investigators determined that the fire started at an electrical outlet in the garage. ``It was an electrical malfunction. I'm not sure if it was wired wrong,'' the captain said. Scott said the flames, smoke and water caused an estimated $70,000 in structural damage, plus an additional $30,000 damage to the contents. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1-2--Color) Top, a firefighter hoses down a hotspot at an early morning house fire in the 28700 block of Raintree Lane in Saugus. Left, a firefighter douses 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. eaves at the single-family dwelling dwelling an abnormality of gait in a horse in which there is a momentary hesitation before the foot is placed on the ground. , where investigators believe an electrical malfunction caused some $100,000 in damage. David R. Crane/Daily News |
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