The walls and roof collapsed of a boarded-up cafe that caught fire in an East Bay strip mall on Friday early morning.
Flames ended up very first described at 4 a.m. outside the former Imperial Seafood Restaurant in Harmony, claimed Joe Ottolini, a spokesperson for the Contra Costa County Hearth Defense District. When firefighters arrived on scene, the fire was feeding on into the building’s interior and flames eventually tore into the attic.
“As crews have been creating entry, the partitions of the making collapsed, so we pulled out and went into defensive manner,” Ottolini instructed SFGATE over the mobile phone. “We commenced battling the fire from the exterior.”
Just after the walls collapsed, the roof adopted.
“It was a solitary-alarm hearth, but it became sophisticated once the fire got into the attic,” he mentioned.
This is not the to start with time firefighters have responded to a blaze at the shuttered cafe, but it was the most significant flame however.
“It has been vacant for a range of a long time,” Ottolini explained. “We have absent out there for several other smaller sized fires. It has been made use of as a homeless encampment.”
The fireplace was beneath regulate by 5:30 a.m. There have been no injuries claimed. The bring about of the hearth is underneath investigation.