Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the Home Depot fire. For the Santana Row blaze, officials were never able to say exactly how it started.
San Jose, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 9: San Jose City Fire Department firefighters work on a fire outside of Home Depot off Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, April 9, 2022. It’s not every day that a major building in San Jose becomes consumed by a raging inferno, sending up dark clouds of smoke that can be seen for miles, forcing hundreds of people to flee for safety and captivating the nation’s attention.
Videos and photos of the five-alarm fire that broke out at about 5:30 p.m. on April 9 in the lumber section of the Home Depot at 920 Blossom Hill Road went viral on social media. The intense flames, which were detected by orbiting satellites, leveled the store at an alarming speed.
The Santana Row fire, by comparison, erupted at 3:36 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, 2002, at a building that covered approximately six acres — or more than four football fields — in the then-under-construction shopping development. Former San Jose residents Ken and Jane Pyle, who lived about a half-mile south of Santana Row on the other side of Interstate 280, still remember a neighbor grabbing a ladder and climbing on top of their home to stomp out three spots where their roof had begun to burn.
“It was pretty scary because it was huge,” Pack said about the fire at the nearby home improvement store.San Jose nursing home evacuated as firefighters battle nearby blaze
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