2 Fires at California Rehab Center Being Looked into by Arson Investigators

June 27, 2017

An arson team in California is investigating after two vacant buildings were destroyed by fire at the 129-year-old Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles County.

Officials say crews responded to the first fire around 2:30 a.m. Monday in a two-story building on the rehab center campus in the city of Downey.

As they battled the flames, word came in about another blaze about a block away in a smaller building.

Both fires were out by shortly before 4 a.m.

No injuries are reported.

Rancho Los Amigos, founded in 1888, helps rehabilitate patients who are seriously injured or have suffered strokes or other ailments.

Topics California

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