OWNERS PLAN TO REBUILD DON CUCO DOZENS OF WORKERS DISPLACED BY FIRE.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - The landmark Don Cuco restaurant on Camp Plenty Road consumed by fire Saturday morning will rise again. Enrique Salazar, bar manager of the Newhall Don Cuco, one of the four franchises in the 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, and Antelope valleys This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , said that owners of the restaurant are planning to rebuild. He expressed concern for the more than 40 employees suddenly out of work at that location. ``We are trying to find work for them at our Lancaster and Acton restaurants as well as here,'' Salazar said. ``We have a lot of good workers that we want to keep. We don't want them to find jobs somewhere else. We have a bartender who's been with us 15 years; our chef has been there a long time, too.'' The Newhall restaurant was flooded with calls from people with catering orders pending at the Canyon Country location. Salazar said the restaurant was trying to accommodate the customers, despite the loss of the larger kitchens at the Canyon Country site. Detective Enrique Velazquez with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. Arson arson, at common law, the malicious and willful burning of the house of another. Originally, it was an offense against the security of habitation rather than against property rights. and Explosives unit said that arson has been ruled out as the cause of the fire. ``We saw nothing at the location that would make us believe it was arson,'' he said. ``We are 90 percent sure that it started as an electrical fire in the attic In the Attic can refer to:
Velazquez said that restaurant employees reported closing the building at midnight Friday. When firefighters arrived shortly after 5:30 a.m., the fire had consumed the roof. ``It was probably cooking in there, 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. for a while,'' he added. No one was in the building when the fire broke out. Carol Rock, (661) 257-5252 carol.rock(at)dailynews.com |
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