Fire Breaks Out at West L.A. Office Depot

WEST LOS ANGELES, Calif.           Electronics and computer gear
(KTLA) -- The Los Angeles          were damaged in the blaze.
Fire Department's Arson            According to Castro, the fire
Counter-Terrorism section is       began in a trash bin outside
investigating a fire that          the warehouse and jumped into
broke out Saturday at an           the back of the building
Office Depot store in West         where many paper goods and
Los Angeles.                       electronics were stacked in
The fire at the large 1-story      shelving units.
building on the 2200 block of      Some 100 firefighters were
Barrington Avenue between          able to contain the fire to
Pico and Olympic broke out         the storage area, but Castro
around 6 p.m. Saturday and         still estimated a "fairly
took almost an hour to be          significant amount" of
extinguished, according to         computer and electronic goods
Los Angeles Fire Battalion         were damaged.
Chief Joe Castro.                  The damage is estimated at 1.
The warehouse served as both       75 million dollars. It is
a storage facility and a           unknown when the store will
retail facility for Office         be reopened.
Depot.                             No injuries were reported.    

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