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Roging Fire Devqstqles Solqno Lumber ond Builders Co.

An early morning fire destroyed approximately 300,000 feet of lumber, valued between $30,000 and $40,000, at the Solana lumber and Builders Supply Co., Solana Beach, California.

Al Childs, a company vice president, said that a sorting table and a saw were also destroyed by the blaze. He explained the fire, reported at 3 :30 a.m. threatened a lumber inventory of $250,000 and buildings and equipment in the yard, which extends four blocks in the heart of Solana Beach. Flames roared 30 feet in the air from lumber piled 18 feet high.

Some 50 fire fighters from four North Coast fire stations brought the fire under control by 5 a.m. They pumped water into the smouldering lumber piles for the next six hours to prevent the fire from rekindling itself.

The Sheriff's Office ordered residents for three blocks west of the lumber yard to rvet down their houses and vards. and to stand by to evacuate if the fire rekindled and spread to housing neighboring the yard. Fireman confined the flames to the yard and evacuation was not necessary.

The company, one of the oldest and biggest lumber concerns in the Solana Beach area, is owned by Herschel Larrick, Sr. 'and Herschel Larrick, Jr.

The owners stated that the firm is presentlv in operation ancl servicing all their customers' n.6dr.

Housing Stcrrls in October t96l

Construction was begun on 127,ffiO housing units in October 1961, compared with 127,ffi0 in September and 113,200 in October 1960, according to preliminary estimates of the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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