SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police in San Diego say they are considering a fire at the home of two local officials who are husbands suspicious.
County Board of Supervisors Chairman Nathan Fletcher said around 4 a.m. Wednesday smoke alarms woke him, his wife Lorena Gonzalez and the rest of the family.
“The front of our house was engulfed in flames, but we were able to exit safely through another door,” Fletcher said in a statement.
The fire caused about $30,000 worth of damage to the house and another $6,000 to a vehicle parked out front, said Monica Muñoz, a spokeswoman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
Police and fire investigators arrived at the scene, a statement from the Police Department said. The “fire is being treated as suspicious in nature,” he said.
The fire also burned an American flag outside the home, according to Fletcher, a former Marine.
The Democratic supervisor is an outspoken advocate for the county’s COVID-19 policies and has advocated for business restrictions during peaks of the pandemic, drawing fervent support but also criticism. He has often led county briefings on the pandemic, which has made him somewhat of a prominent face in the local government response.
His wife, González, also has fans and critics. As a Democratic state assemblyman, she successfully pushed through ambitious labor laws, including a temporary worker law. He criticized Elon Musk for threatening to kick Tesla out of California due to reopening restrictions. Tesla later announced that he would be moving to Texas.
Last week, González resigned from the Assembly to seek to become a leader of the California Federation of Labor.
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