Dive Brief:
- In what is becoming a bizarre phenomenon, a daytime fire struck a multifamily residential building under construction, this time in Anaheim, Calif., on Tuesday, April 8.
- Fire department officials, who had more than 80 personnel on the scene after the fire was reported at about 8:30 a.m., said the building's owners estimated the damage at about $2 million.
- Part of the three-story building collapsed, and investigators were working through the debris later in the day Tuesday to try to determine how the fire began.
Dive Insight:
The Anaheim fire hit one of a series of buildings being built in the area, and there were no reports of damage to other structures and no injuries to firefighters or workers. The fire inevitably is a reminder of the recent fires in San Francisco and Houston, which both happened in residential buildings where fire-suppression systems had not yet been installed.