$170,000 Fire Destroys 7 Rare Bird Eggs
Fire burned through a Mission Hills house early Monday, destroying more than $170,000 in property and personal treasures, including seven rare Moluccan cockatoo eggs worth $2,000 each when hatched, the owner said.
It took about 20 firefighters half an hour to extinguish the flames, said Pat Marek, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman. One firefighter was treated and released from Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills for a minor eye injury.
The owner, Gregory A. Bowman, was not home when the blaze began about 2:20 a.m. Bowman said he arrived after 8 a.m. to find that his home at 15320 Superior St. “looked like a bomb had hit.”
He said he raises exotic birds and had cockatoo eggs in an incubator that were only 10 days away from hatching.
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