May 2009

ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Two Roseville restaurants will likely be demolished after they were gutted by a four-alarm fire Monday night. The Roseville Fire Department said it responded to a report of smoke in the area near the Country Gables Café at about 9 p.m. Firefighters said they arrived to find heavy smoke and fire coming [...]

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District investigators are examining the remains of an abandoned hardware store in North Highlands that burned down Monday afternoon, officials said. The hardware store, at 3525 Elkhorn Blvd., caught fire about 5 p.m., said Capt. Christian Pebbles, Metro Fire spokesman. About 40 firefighters responded to the two-alarm blaze and contained it in [...]

EUREKA — An Old Town business suffered heavy damage in a fast-moving fire Sunday morning that left much of its contents destroyed and its owner convinced it was intentionally set. Stuff n’ Things proprietor Elizabeth Lapple is offering a reward of $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the alleged arsonist. According [...]

A small fire Friday burned a storage building below the west screen of the old drive-in movie theater on Newcomb Street. About half of the structure was destroyed, Porterville Fire Department Lt. Mike McGill said Saturday. “There was a report of smoke in the area,” McGill said. “Somebody called it in.” The case, according to [...]