The Store Supply warehouse was destroyed in a fire over Memorial Day Weekend. The family thinks the fire started in the nearby homeless encampment, with a man they've had problems with before.
business. He’s devastated. The store area wasn’t damaged much, but the warehouse and all of the goods in there are gone. A big loss for a guy with not much insurance. A 58-year-old now asking "What’s going to happen to me?"said although the cause of the blaze is under investigation, they believe it started outside the building and raced into it. Santiago Varela, who owns The Melrose House bar nearby took video that supports that account.
Sanchez and her dad said that for a year now they have called the city on multiple occasions for help to deal with the homeless man’s encampment.Valdez said he asked the man to leave a month ago. The man's response, Valdez said: "He said, 'You're crazy. I have nowhere to go. It's not my fault.' I said, ‘You need to leave. You don’t deserve to be here. You cover the whole street, [the] whole sidewalk.
Now, the whole sidewalk is covered in rubble. Shopping carts were incinerated, as was a neighbor’s SUV that was parked at the curb. Sanchez said the whole thing "breaks my heart.""Everything that I did, you know, it went down," Valdez said. "All that I work for is right there. And, now, what’s gonna happen?"All the news you need to know, every day
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