Time: 23 January 2011, 1215 hours
Address: 400 San Antonio Road., Mountain View
Type: Second alarm. Large single-story, commercial, wood frame building, non-sprinklered. Four units, three occupied (including Dittmer's Gourmet Meats and Wurst-Haus -- Sob!).
Remarks: Minor damage around the smokehouse vent. Could have been much worse if it hadn't evidenced itself during the day. Dittmer's should be back in business soon -- Yea!
Fire Units in Attendance:
MTV: E-1, 2, 3, 4; T-1, R-1, HM-5
IC: Batt. 18 (Alameda)
18A1; 18A3
PAF: E-2, 5; T-6; Batt. 6
Responding Unit: FSU-3 (running as FSU-1)
Responders: Gundrum (driver), Haag, Williams, Wong, Dembecki, Hoyt, Dave Thompson (guest)
- Bruce Dembecki's photos can be viewed at: Dittmer's Deli Fire
- A SJ Mercury-News story can be read at: Mtn. View Deli Fire
-- Accompanying photo by B. Dembecki