Investigators find growing equipment in burned building [Updated]
[Updated at 9 a.m.: Police and fire officials are investigating
an indoor growing operation found inside a downtown L.A. commercial building
that was engulfed in flames.
After the fire was extinguished by
firefighters, investigators discovered growing equipment inside, said police
spokesman Richard French. What was being grown though is not yet known, he
said.
Fire department spokesman Erik Scott said it
was a possible illegal operation.]
Firefighters knocked down a structure fire this morning in downtown Los Angeles that engulfed a one-story commercial building.
Several Los Angeles Fire Department trucks were called to the scene in the 600 block of South Santa Fe Avenue at 6:40 a.m., department spokesman Erik Scott said. It took 75 firefighters 37 minutes to extinguish the blaze, Scott said. No injuries were reported, and the cause was under investigation.
-- Raja Abdulrahim
Photo: Los Angeles city firefighters extinguish an early-morning fire in an industrial building in downtown L.A. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times >>More photos
If it were legalized, regulated and TAXED, this fire likely would not have happened. Marijuana prohibition costs us in so many ways. Time to end that stupidity.
Posted by: Christine Beatty | July 09, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Smoke another doobie Christine!
Posted by: ddm97 | July 09, 2009 at 11:10 AM
yea right, pure stupidity my arse, thousands and thousands are murdered every year. for drugs,
If you consume drugs, sell drugs, launder money for drugs YOUR THE PROBLEM why thousands are murdered and so much misery is created, dont do it period.
Posted by: aaron | July 09, 2009 at 11:37 AM
it is too bad that the person is going through what he or she is going through after there operation was burned up and found by police...I can only imagine how much money they have lost and even more with legal fees...I hope they rebound and get things together after this tragedy they and there family is going through.....stay up!!!
Posted by: jack | July 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Impossible to feel bad for a drug dealer.
I hope the dealers are also charged for the cost for putting out the fire.
Posted by: Mario | July 11, 2009 at 11:42 PM