Two Santa Rosa mobile home parks, a furniture store and a gun store were among the structures consumed early Monday by wildfires that one witness said “look like Armageddon.”
The fire than engulfed the Schmidt Firearms store at 808 Piner Road also created additional hazards for firefighters when ammunition inside the store began to explode with loud pops.
It appeared that the store was destroyed, along with the Furniture 2000 store at 806 Piner Road and Coddington mobile home park at 801 Piner Road.
Andy Lahiji, the owner of the Furniture 2000 store, stood and watched as firefighters fought a losing battle to save the structures, including a furniture warehouse.
“I had $300,000 in inventory in the warehouse,” he said.
He also gazed at the remains of his large panel truck that had been reduced to a blackened hull.
SC : SF Gate
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