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Posted Tuesday January 10, 2012– 11:30am
A non-injury fire broke out today at a building
under construction on the grounds of the Los Angeles California Temple, the
second-largest in the Mormon Church, and an arson investigation was under way,
authorities said.
The fire at a roughly 4,000-square-foot building under construction on
the temple grounds at 10777 Santa Monica Blvd. in Westwood was reported at 1:01
a.m. and extinguished at 1:27 a.m., said Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Tom
Sammartano. No other structure was damaged.
Arson investigators were on the scene this morning trying to determine
what sparked the blaze, he said.
The 257-foot high Los Angeles California Temple, which sits on a 13-acre
property, was the first built in California by the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints. Opened in 1956, it was the church's largest temple until the
Salt Lake City Temple was expanded.
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