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Massive fire breaks out at closed restaurant in Bay Area strip mall

10/21/2022 5:45:00 PM

The walls and roof collapsed of a boarded-up restaurant that caught fire in an East Bay

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The walls and roof collapsed of a boarded-up restaurant that caught fire in an East Bay Strip mall, Friday morning. The walls and roof collapsed of a boarded-up restaurant that caught fire in an East Bay Tetra Images/Getty Images/Tetra images RFThe walls and roof collapsed of a boarded-up restaurant that caught fire in an East Bay Strip mall on Friday morning.Flames were first reported at 4 a.m. outside the former Imperial Seafood restaurant in Concord, said Joe Ottolini, a spokesperson for the Contra Cost County Fire Protection District. When firefighters arrived on scene, the fire was eating into the building's interior and flames eventually tore into the attic. "As crews were making entry, the walls of the building collapsed, so we pulled out and went into defensive mode," Ottolini told SFGATE over the phone."We started fighting the fire from the exterior."After the walls collapsed, the roof followed. Read more:
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