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# Fire causes $50K damage to building By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/fire-causes-50k-damage-to-building-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2002-07-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:33:07.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Real Estate & Housing, Santa Monica, #archive-import

A fire broke out Wednesday that caused $50,000 damage to a Santa Monica apartment building, leaving its residents without water for several hours.

Firefighters responded to 911 calls from tenants of a building on the 2200 block of 29th Street at 7 p.m. Residents of the building reported hearing a “boom” and then they saw flames around the doorway of the utility closet, fire officials said.

There were no injuries and fire, smoke and water damages were contained to one unit in the building, with no spread to other buildings. The 29 responding firefight-ers had the blaze extinguished in less than 20 minutes, officials said.

A broken water line left the eight-unit building without water for several hours. The cause of the fire is under investigation, and is undetermined at this time.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 19, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071902.pdf?ref=smdp.com)