By Liz Kellar and Rebecca O Neil | Staff Writers
The cause of an early morning fire that gutted a vacant office building Sunday has not yet been determined, authorities said Monday.
The three-alarm fire inside the 15,000-square-foot building drew a multi-county response after it was reported at 4:43 a.m. Sunday, Grass Valley/Nevada City Fire Division Chief Sam Goodspeed said.
“The battalion chief on duty pulled the alarms right away, knowing the condition of the building,” Goodspeed said. “That second alarm pulled engines from every fire department in western Nevada County.”
That initial fire attack included units and personnel from Grass Valley, Nevada City, Nevada County Consolidated, Cal Fire, Penn Valley, Ophir Hill, Rough and Ready and Peardale-Chicago Park fire departments. Additional units then were pulled in from Placer County, Auburn and Yuba City, he said.