Fire damages group home

PASADENA - A fire displaced four residents and three staff members of a Greenhaven assisted living home yesterday, county fire officials said.

Lt. Stuart Peters, spokesman for the county Fire D

partment, said the fire broke out just before 4 p.m. at the one-story home in the 8000 block of Catherine Avenue.

The home is owned by Rose Garden Cottages, Inc., a private company that provides housing for senior citizens.

It took 49 firefighters about a half hour to extinguish the two-alarm blaze, Peters said.

Neighborhood residents Zachary Weatherstein, a Northeast High ninth grader,...