Cannabis Greenhouse Catches Fire in Carpinteria

Early Sunday morning, shortly after 5 a.m. and over an hour before the sun came up, a Carpinteria resident was startled awake by a fiery “glow” at a nearby property along Foothill Avenue. The concerned neighbor called the incident into dispatch, and by 5:21 a.m. the Carpinteria Summerland Fire Protection District was at the scene of the 4900 block of Foothill, where fire crews found a “large greenhouse” used for growing cannabis had caught fire, with flames and heavy smoke billowing from the structure into the dark morning sky.

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