House Fire on our street

The owner rented out his house and, according to reports, the child was in the garage "playing with matches" when a gas container ignited. This occurred on Sunday while were were at the Capital City Caper.  An interesting issue that California law makes it illegal to rent your house with the condition "adults only" - even though this is one of the risks that the law imposes upon innocent parties.

Child playing with matches ignited fire, officials say
Published 12:00 am PDT Monday, May 19, 2008

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District officials said a child playing with matches accidentally set fire to his family's garage Sunday afternoon.

The garage and a pickup truck in the driveway were badly burned, but firefighters contained the blaze before it spread through the house in Citrus Heights.

Officials said nobody was injured in the fire.

– Cathy Locke