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Visit The Union Now for real time updates. UPDATE at 9:45 a.m.: The Bennett Fire is 73% contained this morning, according to Cal Fire NEU. UPDATE at 7:12 a.m. Thursday: From Nevada County Sheriff’s Office:...
A fire that broke out Tuesday morning appears to have badly damaged a podiatry clinic in Grass Valley, authorities say
John Orona | Staff Writer Janet Peake was working from home when she got a call that her office of 27 years was on fire. “I came.. and just watched it burn,” Peake, a financial consultant, said, her voice quivering. According to Peake, far from receiving minimal damage, Wednesday’s fire that razed a vacant home in downtown Nevada City left the roof of her building — next door to the structure that completely burned — nearly caving in, with a hole in one wall completely exposing her to the elements. Her upstairs office is now completely unusable, she said. Over the last 48 hours she...
By Liz Kellar and Rebecca O'Neil | Staff Writers The cause of an early morning fire that gutted a vacant office building Sunday has not yet been determined, authorities said Monday. The three-alarm fire inside the 15,000-square-foot building drew a multi-county response after it was reported at 4:43 a.m. Sunday, Grass Valley/Nevada City Fire Division Chief Sam Goodspeed said. “The battalion chief on duty pulled the alarms right away, knowing the condition of the building,” Goodspeed said. “That second alarm pulled engines from every fire department in western Nevada County.” That ini...