On Monday morning, Bainbridge Bakery owner John Mirdita looked down on the wreckage of his store from the roof of a nearby apartment building.
He pointed out the remnants of the $40,000 stove that his family had just bought for the bakery’s re-opening, which never happened.
He also saw a man wearing all black and a Yankees cap rifling through the wreckage of what was once Dunkin’ Donuts, located just a few doors down from where his bakery used to be. He was cutting up piping and digging for other salvageable materials. Mirdita called the police, but they couldn’t find him anywhere.
“He could be compromising the investigation,” Mirdita said, fully aware that the Fire Department had yet to announce the cause of the fire.
Earlier in the day, the Buildings Department slapped a violation on the site, wedged between particle boards, because the landlord failed to secure the burned-out buildings from public access.
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