Restaurant Fire Cooks Popular Irvine Seafood Market

IRVINE, CA — Seafood City display freezers were the start of a blaze that called in two engine companies Friday morning, according to Orange County Fire Authority.

The fire damaged a popular Irvine seafood market this morning, but no one was injured, authorities said.

Firefighters sent to Seafood City at 2180 Barranca Parkway around 4 a.m. saw heavy smoke inside the store, said Capt. Larry Kurtz of the Orange County Fire Authority.

No one was inside the business when the fire, which was centered around display freezers, broke out, Kurtz said.

Thirty-five firefighters knocked down the flames in about 15 minutes, Kurtz said.

Fans were set up to blow the smoke out of the store, and county health officials were working to determine if the food products could be sold, Kurtz said.

The cause of the fire was under investigation.