By Daily Press staff
NORTH OF WILSHIRE A pair of apartment fires here kept Santa Monica firefighters busy on Monday.
Just before 10:30 a.m., firefight-ers responded to a call at 909 Euclid St., where a loveseat located too close to a heating grate was believed responsible for igniting the blaze, according to SMFD Battalion Chief Carl Bjerke.
Around 3 p.m., another call went out, this time it was an apartment building at 229 San Vicente Blvd., where a fire was believed to have started in the unit’s kitchen.
An investigation into the cause was still ongoing Monday night.
In both instances, adjacent tenants were evacuated from the apartment buildings shortly after the fires began, but were allowed to return to their homes later in the day. The two units in which the fires ignited sustained “room and contents” damage, according to the SMFD, and were deemed uninhabitable.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 13, 2007. Read the original PDF.