An electrical fire in Santa Ana displaced 15 residents Sunday afternoon, fire officials said, according to the O.C. Register.
The fire started at 3:40 p.m. at a home in the 1300 block of South Halladay Street and was extinguished about 20 minutes later, according a watch commander with the Orange County Fire Authority.
What is really mind-blowing is that “Eleven adults and four children were displaced by the fire. A total of 12 requested assistance from the Red Cross but no injuries were reported.”
How in the world can you pack that many people, safely, into one home?
You can see the homes on that street, courtesy of Google Maps, here.
The fire apparently caused about $50K in property damage.
The Fire Authority said the fire was due to an electrical problem. Usually in a case like this that likely means that extension cords were being used as permanent wiring or some of the outlets were overloaded.
A friend of mine who works in real estate recently saws an add for a Santa Ana house that was being advertised as being great for “big families” and that you can even turn the bonus room into a bedroom. What do you suppose “big families” is code for? Are the big homes in Villa Park and Tustin not good for big families?
These overcrowded homes are a real danger to the residents and if they are being rented out the landlords need to be held accountable.
A house recently sold in our neighborhood – the new owners are converting a living room into a couple of bedrooms. You could see that they tore into the garage to make a closet – that is likely illegal. I don’t see any building inspectors looking at the work.
Another civic fail.
Seamus call 667-2780 (code enforcement) explain what you see, ask if permits are on file. Code enforcement can’t fix what they don’t know about
It takes a village!
Wish we had our old Santa Ana fire department back…Another bad move by our mayor…
Why?
Is there something wrong with the OCFA? Have response times increased? I have read this comment by you several times, only you.
What is the problem with the OCFA? Are you just nostalgic?
Must be disgruntled union members.
It’s the talk of the town it’s all over facebook with hundreds of people wanting our old Santa Ana fire department back ….and yes response time are very slow….you better hope CARE ambulance service is hanging by your house if you get sick and plus with these old fire trucks that move at 5 mph, what a disgrace…where’s all our new fire trucks we had….it’s all over californiafirefighter.com…