Facing Watt Avenue in North Highlands, the patio and exterior of Bear West BBQ, a barbeque and soul food restaurant, is charred and burned after the owner’s family suspected a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the building’s exterior on the early morning of Oct. 2. Photo by Seth Henderson
NORTH HIGHLANDS, CA (MPG) – Business owners, employees, family and friends of two businesses are asking for the community’s help after a suspected Molotov cocktail was thrown at a commercial building in the North Highlands Town Center on Oct. 2.
Battalion Chief Brian Gonsalves of the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said he was one of two responding battalion chiefs to the incident when a call came into dispatch for a commercial fire at the center around 2:30 a.m. Oct. 2, resulting in a total response of five fire engines, three trucks, an ambulance and two chiefs in under two minutes…