On Sunday, July 2, 2006 at 4:34 p.m., 13 companies of Los Angeles firefighters, three LAFD rescue ambulances, one arson unit, one urban search and rescue unit, one rehab/air tender unit, one hazardous materials squad, three EMS battalion captains, three battalion chief officer command teams and one division chief officer command team under the direction of Battalion Chief Robert Rose, responded to a Greater Alarm Structure Fire at 8811 Amigo Avenue in Northridge.
Firefighters arrived quickly to discover heavy smoke showing from the northeast corner of a 100' x 100' one story commercial bakery, with flames soon thereafter through the roof.
Firefighters using handlines confined the intense fire to Greene’s Wholesale Bakery, extinguishing the flames in just 45 minutes.
There were no injuries.
Loss from the fire is estimated at $200,000 ($150,000 structure & $50,000 contents). The cause of the blaze remains listed as under investigation.