second fire in three months has scorched part of a vacant city-owned lot in downtown San Jose.
San Jose Fire Department equipment and personnel are visible next to a burnt-out residential structure on West St. John St. near North Autumn Street in downtown San Jose, as seen in a photo taken on Dec. 30, 2024.SAN JOSE — A second fire in three months has scorched part of a vacant city-owned lot in downtown San Jose that is taking on an increasingly blighted appearance after multiple blazes.
A burned-out structure following a fire in mid-Sept. on West St. John Street in downtown San Jose as seen on Sept. 17, 2024. Smoke rises from a fire-scorched residential structure on West St. John St. near North Autumn Street in downtown San Jose, as seen in a photo taken on Dec. 30, 2024. However, unhoused individuals have lived on the nearby banks of the Guadalupe River. Homeless individuals are known to have resided in the burned-out properties on occasion, city officials said.
The adjacent — and so far unburnt — buildings include the old Forman’s Arena and old Milligan News property. The Milligan News building is the structure that firefighters rescued on Monday.Meanwhile, the property has become steadily more blighted with two burned buildings easily visible from West St. John Street.
It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly San Jose might act to deal with blight on sites owned by the city itself, such as the fire-torn West St. John properties.
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