PORT ANGELES — Investigators continued Tuesday to look into the cause of a fire that burned a Gales Addition business early Monday.
The pre-dawn fire caused about $150,000 damage to A&N Upholstery, located on 124 N. Gales St. just off U.S. Highway 101 — about a block from the New Peking restaurant and lounge, which burned one day later.
Firefighters from Clallam County Fire District No. 2. were called to the fire at about 3:40 a.m., Capt. Dan Huff said.
Preliminary investigation indicated that the fire began in the ground-floor upholstery shop, Huff said.
“The upholstery shop was a total loss, with the adjacent storage unit heavily damaged,” he said.
A man sleeping in the business’ loft, Ernest Brown, Jr. escaped injury.
He was rescued from an adjacent rooftop where he fled to escape the fire.
Investigators don’t believe there’s any link between the upholstery shop fire and New Peking blaze.
