Firefighters responded to commercial fires in Garden Grove and Irvine today

Irvine-firefighters responded after 6 p.m. today to the 19500 block of Jamboree Road for a fire in a commercial building.

A second alarm was requested.

Northbound Jamboree was closed to through traffic from MacArthur to Birch.

No injuries were reported.

Firefighters also responded after 5 p.m. to the 13200 block of Brookhurst St. in Garden Grove for a fire in a vacant building.

That vacant building appears to have once been a Marie Callender’s restaurant.

No injuries were reported and no cause has been determined.

Brookhurst was shut down in both directions from Trask to Garden Grove Bl.

Art Pedroza Editor

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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