Fire at industrial park

COSTA MESA ? At least one business in an industrial park on Superior Avenue was destroyed by a warehouse fire late Sunday afternoon.

Around 5:24 p.m., Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach sent firefighters to the five-unit industrial park near the corner of Superior and Industrial Way, where clouds of smoke were still billowing from the roof an hour later.

Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the fire. No one was hurt, but people were in the building when the blaze started. Officials said the fire began in a unit used by a golf-bag business.

“We had a warehouse sale today,” said Ryan Dennee, logistics manager for Initium Eyewear, two units down from the golf-bag maker. “Luckily the sale had ended and it was just our staff that was still here.”

Someone from one of the other units came and warned them to get out of the building, Dennee said.

By 6 p.m., dozens of people were standing around watching the firefighters work and taking pictures with cameras and cell phones. Some firefighters were spattered with tar from hot roofing material that fell on them, and pieces of charred debris littered the area around the burned unit.

“When both of our units got here they reported heavy volumes of black smoke,” Newport Beach Fire Battalion Chief Dave Mais said. They were concerned that the roof would collapse under the weight of air conditioning units.

“There’s definitely structure collapse of this building, for sure,” Mais said.

The fire took about 20 to 30 minutes to contain, with a few flames still flaring up.

Costa Mesa building inspector Gary Hook said the power to the building was being shut off, but he didn’t know if it would have to be red-tagged as uninhabitable. No damage estimate was available late Sunday.dpt.26-fire-1-C.1PhotoInfoCP1SBGC820060626j1g3qfncPHOTOS BY MARK DUSTIN / DAILY PILOT(LA)Above, firefighters from the Huntington Beach Fire Department cut through metal in a building that caught fire near on Superior Avenue near W. 16th Street Sunday evening. Below, firefighters remove debris during mop up efforts.dpt.26-fire-2-C.1PhotoInfoCP1SBGCC20060626j1g3r0ncPHOTOS BY MARK DUSTIN / DAILY PILOT(LA)Above, firefighters from the Huntington Beach Fire Department cut through metal in a building that caught fire near on Superior Avenue near W. 16th Street Sunday evening. Below, firefighters remove debris during mop up efforts.