Hotel Fire Leaves Hundreds Homeless
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Several hundred victims of a fire that swept through their residential hotel piled wet, smoky clothes into plastic bags and suitcases Tuesday and sought shelter. “I don’t know where to go now,” said Arcadio Sarmiento, 69, who lived in the Delta Hotel with his wife, Leonora. The blaze forced as many as 300 people into the streets. Arson investigators blamed the Monday night fire on a careless smoker.
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