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Around 1a.m., close to John McLaren Park, firefighters and other local law enforcement officials were called out to a residential fire in the 100 block of Tucker Avenue.  Although no one was inside the home at the time of the fire, marijuana grow house equipment was found in 5 of the rooms. Those first on […]

When a two-story Richmond District house caught on fire in the early morning hours, a neighbor called it in to the local Fire Department.  Firefighters responded and quickly put out the one-alarm conflagration, but they discovered something else in the meantime – a false wall in the garage of the home that was hiding a […]

In the 1200 block of 51st Avenue, firefighters were called out to a blaze that they believe to have been an illegal grow house operation of about 60-70 marijuana plants, though about 20 of them were lost in the conflagration.  It seems that faulty wiring was the cause of the fire, not arson, and no […]