SACRAMENTO – Fires on Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento are lighting up concerns for neighbors as they now demand enforcement from the city.
The latest fire happened Sunday afternoon at AMF Land Park Lanes, a bowling alley. It was forced to shut down. Customer King Shabazz said it’s been a popular place to bowl for generations of families.
“There’s a lot of history here,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that have been here for years, decades, grew up here, so it’s real sad.”
He had a chance to see all the damage inside.
“All the soot and smoke is covering the whole lanes,” Shabazz said.
Firefighters say it appears the blaze started as a couch fire outside the business and then spread inside through the attic.
Jennifer Holden, president of the nearby Mangan Park Neighborhood Association, said it’s just the latest in a series of suspicious fires along the Freeport Boulevard corridor.
“We’ve been losing a business every six months for a few years due to these fires,” she said.