Arson suspected in C & C Wholesale blaze; company operations resume in adjacent space
The head of Dallas-based C & C Wholesale said arson is the suspected cause of a blaze that gutted the Houston branch of his 11-location distributorship in the late hours of Feb. 12.
Company CEO Blake Christian said a break-in at the Houston branch was registered approximately one half hour before a four-alarm fire broke out at the 12,000-square-foot facility. Investigators found metal security gates sawn open on the scene. That, and the manner in which the fire progressed through the building, indicated possible arson. "That's what it looks like, anyway," Christian said.