Structure fire results in $15,000 damage An...

Structure fire results

in $15,000 damage

An abandoned building that once served as an office for the Snug

Harbor mobile-home park, burned to the ground in a Monday evening

fire, Costa Mesa Fire Department officials said.

The 1,000-square-foot building was engulfed in flames when

firefighters got to it at about 6:10 p.m. in the 1600 block of

Newport Boulevard, Costa Mesa Fire Battalion Chief Scott Broussard

said.

No one was inside the structure, which was boarded up, he said,

and no other buildings were close to the blazing building. Broussard

estimated that the fire, which took about 10 minutes to put out, cost

about $15,000 in damages.

The cause and origin of the fire are still under investigation, he

said.