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Fire Which Gutted South Coast Business Now Being Called "Suspicious" In Origin

Monday's early morning fire in Santa Barbara caused an estimated half million dollars in damage

A blaze which gutted a South Coast laundromat is now being called suspicious in nature.

The early Monday morning blaze on the 1900 block of De La Vina Street caused an estimated half million dollars in damage, including $300,000 to the building and $200,000 to the contents.

Flames were shooting out of the windows of the laundromat when firefighters arrived, but they were able to keep it from spreading to neighboring businesses. No one was hurt.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. 
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