Fire Destroys Northern California Home Depot Store

Fire Destroys Northern California Home Depot Store
Firefighters work on a five-alarm fire at the Home Depot off Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, Calif., on April 9, 2022. Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group via AP
The Associated Press
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SAN JOSE, Calif.—A weekend fire gutted a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area, sending up a huge plume of smoke and prompting orders for some nearby residents to shelter in place, authorities said.

The five-alarm blaze in South San Jose erupted around 5 p.m. Saturday and took about six hours to contain shortly before midnight, with some firefighters remaining overnight to douse embers.