Central Fresno business owners fear they're next after recent fires

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After 2 monolithic fires successful Central Fresno, concern owners adjacent Blackstone and McKinley avenues are concerned.

"I'm reasoning I'm going to beryllium next," Art Terzian told Action News.

He and his lad tally A&T Ceramic Tile adjacent the engaged intersection. They accidental a occurrence determination would beryllium devastating.

"This is our inventory, our livelihood," Tony said. "We spent a beingness gathering this up."

The Terzians are battling with the metropolis successful court.

They person 2,900 pallets of tile inactive wrong aft City Hall took power of their property, and astatine slightest 16 others up of a large task to rework the adjacent railroad crossings.

The impacted properties include the erstwhile Carl's Jr., which went up successful flames past month, and the Star Stucco Products gathering that burned connected Sunday.

Investigators telephone the 2 fires successful 12 days suspicious, and they accidental unhoused radical whitethorn beryllium tied to astatine slightest 1 of them.

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"The metropolis has to bash a amended occupation of securing the property," Tony said. "The obstruction is chopped successful the back."

On Tuesday, Action News saw an unauthorized pistillate connected the city-controlled lot.

She claimed her household owned the property, and said she was determination to cheque connected it.

"You're not allowed connected the property," the Terzians told her. "I conscionable came to marque definite that cipher was present anymore," she said."

She yet walked distant aft speaking with the police.

Just Monday, City Manager Georgeanne White told Action News that the metropolis is trying to support up with changeless break-ins.

"We bash person PD that is patrolling the area, but determination are a batch of buildings, and a batch of opportunities for radical to get into buildings," White said.

The metropolis is present turning to demolition. Crews moved successful connected Tuesday to teardrop down the erstwhile Taco Bell earlier it could drawback fire.

"I privation we could bash them each astatine once," White said. "There's lone truthful galore crews that are retired there, and truthful we picked the bid of priority, got input from the Fire Department connected the ones that would beryllium the hardest occurrence for them to fight."

The Terzians stay astatine likelihood with the city, and a proceedings is acceptable for the fall.

Their gathering is apt to travel down somehow, they say, either by an excavator oregon flames.

"I grew up here," Tony said. "This is what I did for each my life, since I was 15 years old. This is my livelihood. This is each I know."

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