Re: (rshsdepot) Tehachapi, CA depot destroyed

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In a message dated 6/16/2008 9:03:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jdent1_@_optonline.net writes:

Historic  Train Depot in Tehachapi destoyed by Fire By: Bill Curtis
4:43 PM Friday,  June 13th, 2008  
http://www.1bakersfield.com/news/read/2/152285

Friday,  June 13th at approximately 3:08 A.M., a call was received by the 
Kern County  Fire Department, for a structure fire in the 100 block of West 
Tehachapi  Boulevard. 24 Kern County Firefighters responded to the incident. The 
fire was  under control in approximately 76 minutes.

As the first responding  engine left their engine house, several blocks 
away, they could see the  fires glow in the night sky. Upon arrival, 
crews faced a large wooden  structure that was fully involved in fire, a 
second alarm was called. The  building was a historic structure, a train depot 
that was under renovation to  be used by the City of Tehachapi for commercial and 
retail space. The depot  was a design #23, one of only 6 
left, it was rebuilt in 1904, due to a  fire that destroyed the original 
depot built in the 1880s. Due to the  involvement a defensive action was 
taken. Fire crews worked to protect  other buildings in the area. The 
fire destroyed in excess of $1,000,000.00  of property and contents, and the 
loss to community cannot be measured.  

Rail service on the adjacent tracks was stopped during suppression  
action but now has resumed. 
There were no reported injuries. 
The  cause is under investigation. 
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