Downtown Manhattan Beach fire under investigation [VIDEO]
Video by Ken Pagliaro Firefighters are investigating the cause of a blaze that quickly engulfed a downtown business Saturday and damaged two others in the same building Saturday night. The fire broke out shortly before 9:40 p.m. at the dental office of Steven Guidone, 1104 N. Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach firefighters responded in less than four minutes to flames spewing from the office and black smoke billowing throughout the two-story building. By the time they arrived, a nearby palm tree, a parking meter and a light pole also had caught fire. A newspaper stand had nearly melted. Glass scattered on the sidewalk from a blown-out a window indicated the fire rapidly heated up, said MBFD Battalion Chief John Weber. The building was vacant at the time, and no one was injured. “The cause of the fire is under investigation and undetermined,” Weber said. “One possibility is that there were a lot of things that could burn in there — chairs, drywall, decorative items, carpet, wood, paper files. The other thing that could have caused it to happen so fast would be if there was an accelerant. Right now, we don’t know what made the fire grow so big so fast. If it was accidental, that’s one…
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