(David Songer via AP)
Fire tore through a 96-foot-tall Christmas tree outside a Southern California hotel, sending a bright chute of flames and then smoke into the air.
The tree outside the Westin South Coast Plaza hotel in Costa Mesa was destroyed early Monday. Photos showed just its burned-out shell still standing at the hotel near a popular shopping center.
Fire Capt. Chris Coates says the fire was extinguished shortly before 7 a.m. and that there were no injuries reported. The cause is under investigation.
The Orange County Register reported that officials asked hotel security to provide area surveillance video.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU, AND GRANT YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND A NEW YEAR DEDICATED TO THIS GOD GIVEN COUNTRY, THAT WE MAY ALL BE FREE, FROM OPPRESSION, AND FEAR, REMEMBER LINCOLN WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, A NATION WITH A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND THAT IT WOULD NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH, SO HELP ME GOD. SEMPER FI ROBERT HOYING USMC.
100 to 1 says it was not an accident with all the trouble we have been having from non Christians.
OH LUCIFER OUR LORD, PLEASE FORGIVE THEM FOR YOU WILL NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED FROM OUR PATHETIC CHRISTIAN LIVES
Speak for yourself, Stephen.