Police briefs

A man with a semiautomatic handgun robbed a Huntington Beach service

station early Monday morning.

An armed robber entered the Chevron station at the corner of Magnolia

and Adams Avenues just after midnight showing the cashier the gun and

demanding money.

No shots were fired and there were no injuries.

“The suspect entered the station via an open emergency exit,

approached the cashier and lifted up his shirt, revealing a black

semiautomatic handgun,” said Huntington Beach Police Lt. Bruce Kelly. “He

demanded the cashier give him money and the cash box. The cashier

complied immediately, giving him all of the market’s cash.”

Police do not know how much money was stolen.

The suspect fled the scene on foot. Although police conducted an

extensive search for the suspect they were not able to find him.

“The suspect left stating he had a vehicle outside but none was seen,”

Kelly said.

Kelly described the suspect as a Latino male in his mid-20s, 5 feet 10

inches, weighing 160 to 180 pounds with a thin mustache, wearing a green

baseball cap and sweatshirt and black pants.

Wienerschnitzel robbed at gunpoint

A gun-toting suspect robbed a Wienerschnitzel restaurant Friday night.

Just before 10 p.m. Friday night a man entered the Wienerschnitzel

restaurant at 7622 Edinger Ave. in Huntington Beach, handed the cashier a

note while showing a chromed pistol and demanded the money from the cash

register.

The cashier complied and gave the man the money, who then exited the

restaurant through the Western doors and left on foot, said Huntington

Beach Police Lt J.B. Hune.

No one was hurt. Police do not know how much money the robber made off

with. The suspect is described as a white male, 45, 6 feet with a heavy

build, short gray hair with a possible mustache and wearing a black and

blue striped T-shirt.

Park fire damages nearby homes

Two homes were damaged after embers from a nearby park fire landed on

the homes’ wood shake roofs on Saturday.

The roofs of two Elm Crest Lane homes were badly singed as a result of

a blaze in Bartlett Park at the corner of Beach Boulevard and Adams

Avenue Saturday morning.

The Huntington Beach Fire Department received a call at 11:20 a.m.

Saturday and responded promptly.

The fire burned at the base of a ravine in the park and ignited some

nearby trees said Brian Springer, fire inspector with the Huntington

Beach Fire Department.

Crews arrived at the park in five minutes and were able to extinguish

the blaze in 10 minutes.

But embers from the fire flew downwind and landed on the roofs of two

homes adjacent to the park.

Firefighters were helped by neighbors hosing the roofs with water to

extinguish the fire before it spread to other parts of the homes.

Springer estimates $2,000 in property damage to the homes.

No one was inside either of the two homes at the time of the fire, and

there were no casualties or injuries.

“This goes to show you how dangerous wood roofs are,” Springer said.