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# It’s in the can
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/its-in-the-can/
- Published: 2005-02-23T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T06:09:35.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Downtown, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Daily Press staff*

DOWNTOWN — Twenty firefighters from three Santa Monica fire stations responded to a bathroom fire here on Wednesday afternoon.

SMFD Battalion Chief Carl Bjerke said the bathroom fire in parking structure No. 5 on Fourth Street near Broadway was surprisingly difficult to contain, and spread through a wall into a small maintenance office next door.

“A pretty well-involved bathroom fire, if you can believe it,” Bjerke said. “This was pretty much completely gutted. Anything that could burn did.”

The cause of the fire was under investigation.

Two investigators also responded to the fire, along with water and electrical workers, according to Bjerke. science, health, biography, genealogy, literature, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Users also are able to access a wealth of web resources in the arts, history, education, sciences, health, business, finance, consumer information, and other subjects selected by librarians. Santa Monica librarians can be contacted electronically through e-mail or “Ask Now,” an interactive reference service available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Santa Monica firefighters extinguish a fire that started in the bathroom in parking structure No. (Photo: Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 23, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022305.pdf?ref=smdp.com)