Del Mar
A two-alarm fire that raced through several Del Mar businesses late Friday--causing $1.5 million in damages--was suspicious in origin, officials said Saturday.
Arson investigators were attempting to determine the precise cause of the fire, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Roy Stamper.
No one was injured in the blaze, which coursed through a single-story commercial building at 2120 Jimmy Durante Blvd. that houses various businesses.
The conflagration, which sent flames shooting into the air and was visible from miles around, was first reported at 8:41 p.m. as an explosion and fire, said a spokesman for the Del Mar Fire Department. Officials declared it under control at 10:20 p.m., after more than 50 firefighters from Del Mar, San Diego, Solana Beach and other area communities responded.
Most of the damage occurred at the offices of Fusion International, where many new computers--some still in their packing crates--were destroyed, officials said. The boxed computers slowed the entry of firefighters, the sheriff’s spokesman said.
Also damaged, the Del Mar firefighting spokesman said, were the neighboring offices of Helium Hi’s, a balloon company.
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