Crime & Safety
East Cobb Frontera Gutted by Fire
The company will reassign its employees that are now displaced due to the restaurant's destruction.
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An East Cobb restaurant was ravaged by an early-morning fire Tuesday, causing the restaurant franchise to move workers to other locations.
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According to WSB-TV, the Frontera Mex-Mex Grill on Powers Ferry Road was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived at 4 a.m. Crews were still on the scene at 8 a.m. Fire officials told WSB-TV they suspect that the fire began in the fryer hood.
The Marietta Daily Journal reports that firefighters had the fire under control in 45 minutes. One firefighter received a slight injury to his ankle and was taken to the hospital as a precaution, the MDJ reports.
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Flames destroyed the restaurant, leaving workers without a workplace. Frontera plans to reassign the employees to other franchises in the local area, the company told WSB-TV.
Nobody was inside the restaurant at the time of the fire.
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