HEARING SET TODAY IN ARSON DEATHS.

Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer

After refusing to go to court twice this week, the Glendale man accused of killing seven family members in a January fire will be brought to a pretrial hearing today ``by any means necessary,'' a sheriff's spokesman said.

Jorjik ``George'' Avanesian, 40, refused to leave his cell for court dates Monday and Tuesday, said Sgt. Ron Spear, a department spokesman.

``A cell extraction can sometimes be easy, it can sometimes be traumatic,'' Spear said.

But the department advised the court Wednesday that it will use any force necessary to bring Avanesian to a 1:30 p.m. hearing today in Pasadena Superior Court, Spear said.

Avanesian immigrated with his family from Iran in October 1995 and does not speak English.

He has been charged with seven counts of murder for a fire in his one-bedroom Harvard Street apartment that killed his wife, Turan, 37, and their six children, who ranged in age from 4 to 17.