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Oakland school fire suspicious
From Staff Reports
May 09, 2008
OAKLAND — A fire of suspicious origin did considerable damage to an art classroom portable building at Sobrante Park Elementary School in Oakland on Thursday night.
The fire forced the school to move classrooms elsewhere at the school, a school official said. It was the second fire in a classroom portable in a year.
"We had another portable that burned last June. We're still waiting on the district to repair that one," said Carmen Denhams, administrative assistant.
Oakland fire Lt. David Brue said fire and police investigators are looking into the cause of the fire. When firefighters arrived at 8:15 p.m.
Thursday the fire was burning inside the portable.
Brue said the damage estimate included $30,000 to the structure and $10,000 to the contents.
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