manufactured its iMac line in Elk Grove as late as 2002. The city's growth peaked in 20, when Elk Grove was declared the fastest growing city in the US. On July 1, 2000, Elk Grove incorporated as a city. Such changes triggered a period of rapid growth. These were meant to serve Sacramento's population, as well as San Francisco commuters seeking a commuting community relatively near the San Francisco Bay Area where they could reside.
In the late 1980s, suburban development projects began to spring up around the community, specifically in the north near Sacramento. In the following decades, Elk Grove remained a small farming community with little urban development. At this new location another hotel was built to accommodate travelers and was named the Elk Grove Hotel. In 1868 the Western Division of the Central Pacific Railroad came through about a mile east of Elk Grove. The air was like champagne, and (the Spaniards) drank deep of it, drank in the beauty around them." Įlk Grove was founded in 1850 as a stage stop for travelers coming from Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, when the Elk Grove Hotel and Stage Stop was opened by James Hall and the town was named after it. Birds chattered in the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths. "Canopies of oaks and cottonwoods, many festooned with grapevines, overhung both sides of the blue current. A writer on Moraga's expedition wrote of the region: The fire is also being looked at by arson investigators.Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga entered the region in 1808, naming the valley "Sacramento Valley" in honor of Sacramento, the Holy Sacrament in Spanish, giving the northerly city of Sacramento its name. Multiple charges were likely once the suspect recovers from his injuries, Rowe said. It’s shocking.”ĭetectives, who said the man hadn’t visited his children in nearly a year, were continuing to investigate the incident. “You wake up to the news its happening in your building. “You think these things don’t happen, and then they happen in your building,” said Carid Servin was also waiting to re-enter her apartment. He and other neighbors were waiting about 7 a.m. to learn if their apartments were damaged by the blaze, but Ibarra said firefighters had told him several units in the two-story block were damaged.
That’s when we walked toward the back and noticed the unit was on fire already.” Then someone knocked a second time and told us to get out. “And when we looked out we saw a cop walking around with an AR-15. “Somebody knocked on the door,” said Raul Ibarra, who lives on the opposite side of the unit where the incident unfolded. Seven or eight neighboring apartments were damaged by the blaze, authorities said. The incident shook residents of the Alder Grove complex, some of whom were evacuated by deputies as deputies and firefighters swooped in. Three puppies who lived in the apartment were also rescued. Metro Fire spokesman Capt. Parker Wilbourn said the suspect and infant are expected to survive Rowe said the woman and her older child were not seriously injured by the fire. The boy and suspect were taken to a hospital. Crews found the man and boy unconscious inside. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel responded and used the next-door apartment’s adjoining wall to ax their way through and fight the blaze. Once deputies saw smoke coming from the ground-floor apartment, they called for firefighters, Rowe said. Deputies at one point used an adjacent apartment to enter the room, pulling pieces of drywall off only for the man to put them back, Rowe said.
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When deputies arrived, they tried talking with the man and through windows saw that the man was setting “small fires” inside the room, according to Rowe. During the visitation, an argument ensued and the man took the child and ran to a bathroom and locked the door.ĭeputies were alerted by the 911 call when they could hear a woman crying and dog barking in the background before the girl hung up the phone. (Photo/Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District)Īccording to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Sgt. Kionna Rowe, the man, who had a restraining order filed against him by the woman, had asked to see the children, and the woman allowed him to come to the apartment and visit with them. Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel responded Friday after a man who was taking part in an informal child visitation refused to give up the 1-year-old to his ex-girlfriend, held a knife to the infant and started setting fires.
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