Gang Blamed for $65,000 Home Fire

By HENRY CHU

March 3, 1991 12 AM PT

STANTON —

Authorities on Saturday blamed gang members for setting a fire that caused $65,000 damage to a home.

About a dozen county firefighters battled the blaze in the 10800 block of Rose Street, Fire Capt. Dan Young said. The fire, which was reported at 4:20 a.m. Saturday, was extinguished in about 20 minutes.

Young said that physical evidence pointed to arson and that a gang-related incident had occurred at the house less than an hour before the blaze.

“It appears that the residents of that house had been involved in an assault with some gang members 45 minutes earlier,” he said. “It sounds like this arson was one in a number of incidents between the residents and this gang.”

An investigation is continuing.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

Gang Blamed for $65,000 Home Fire

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