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After three days Bench fire After swallowing his Altadena house, Leo Bulgarini passed his restaurant, crossing her equally neighborhood, burnt houses and extinct businesses.

When he approached the corner of the Altadena Drive and Lake Avenue, half a mile away from the burned home, he immediately noticed the ruins. Bunny museum And Open the road bicycle shop Once stood. It was less than a football stadium from his restaurant and Gelateria, Bulgarini Vino Kusina.

He expected his business to meet the same fate.

Not so.

His restaurant was still standing in the yard of a shopping center.

“Why is my business just something that doesn't burn?” He thought to himself. “Why was everything burnt?”

He felt as a mixture of relief but helpless.

Inside the gelatarian and the restaurant were visible.

It was then that Bulgarini smells. He looked at the ashes on the floor. He noticed the water from the roof – the firefighters tried to protect the stripp evening – the kitchen's ground concentrated on the floor, some of his gelato machines and destroyed them.

There was no power. There is no running water.

Only then did the click became.

His restaurant escaped from the flames of the Eaton fire, but after that it could not survive.

Leo Bulgarini stands in her Altadena restaurant-Geladeria.

After the Eaton fire, Leo Bulgarini stopped her business inside his Altadena restaurant and gelatoria, but her neighborhood was almost destroyed.

(Larry Ochova / Los Angeles Times)

Bulgarini is not alone. Many restaurants in Ultadena escaped from the fire, but many of their customers have to fight about what is coming now – the uncertainty future is combined with the mounting costs of cleaning, rental and other operating businesses.

“This is an open injury,” Bulgarini said His neighborhood. “Most people here are missing. They don't think they get a gelato with their family. They are no longer here. Their houses are gone.

Bulgarini knows that at least 12 of her restaurant supporters lost their homes in the fire. In Altadana alone, the fire destroyed over 9,400 structures and damaged more than 1,000.

“I don't expect anyone to come here and spend two hours for dinner,” he says. “This business has died at least one year.”

Bukarini said she would temporarily relocate her restaurant, perhaps Eagle Rock or Mandrose. He will have the location of the Altadena, but it is impossible to think of it reopened at any time. He said his restaurant was unusable to serve or eat.

Crossing the yard from Bulgarini, Nancy's Greek Cafe And the nearest bakery was carrying the fire.

The owner Shaun Shakmalian failed to go into his restaurant for several days.

On Monday, he entered his cafe for the first time.

Inside, the restaurant was not damaged.

Shakmalian wore an N95 mask, and when he went to the kitchen and dining room, some dust and ashes were covered. The smell of smoke spread in the air.

He does not dare to open the refrigerator and the freezer. Since the business has been cut off for several days, he does not want to unleash the stench of spoiled food.

Shaun Shakmalian, the owner of Nancy's Greek Cafe, wears a hat and a N95 mask at his restaurant's parking lot.

Shawn Shakmalian, the owner of Nancy's Greek Cafe, says he does not know when he can reopen his Ultadena restaurant and the bakery.

(Cindy Cargamo / Los Angeles Times)

Shakmalian said that at least $ 5,000 lost in the diet. He has no way to compensate for the loss. Last year, he abandoned his business insurance as the premium increased doubled. He said he couldn't.

As of Monday, his cafe has no water and electricity yet. Before he brought a special group to clean what he said “toxic” ash and debris, he said that the two officers should wait until they first run.

Prior to the fire, the business in Nancy was already slow, said Shakmalian. It is difficult to find the location of the restaurant in a vaguely shopping center from the street.

“Now, it will be even more difficult because everyone is gone,” he said.

But he does not want to lose his employees who are already looking for other jobs. At least two of them – including his cook – lost their homes in the fire.

Shakmalian said he plans to open two to four months after recovering electricity and water, but it would lead to “another phase loss.”

“There is a lot of responsibility to reopen and faces pay and rent, but not customers,” he said.

Shakmalian started for now Gofundme To help regenerate his business.

Bulgarini cleaned up his restaurant for three days, throwing the spoiled meat, fish, pasta and 2,300 pounds of handmade gelato. He calculates that the special items he used and his gelato and pasta were lost to $ 100,000 worth of food because of all the hours of labor to make newly produced.

It takes three days to reduce his Ille sauce before preparing.

Of the rest of the food, his crafts, nut butter, he's crafts frozen dessert and a piece of $ 1,200 permes.

Born in Rome, Bulgarini first learned to produce gelato in Sicily. He opened his Altadena Gelataria in 2006 and received the former praise Times Restaurant Reviewers Jonathan Gold And Patricia Escarseka And former Times Food Division Editor Amy Skatergut. He created the following because of his popularity in designing Italian dessert from some excellent materials. The nuts he uses are from Italy, such as precious brand pista from Sicily. Gelato produces directly from the nut breeders, roasting them, extracted oils.

Leo Bulgarini, owner of Bulgarini Geladeria in Altadena, kept gelato next to her Delivery Truck in April 2007

Leo Bulgarini kept her gelato's model outside her Altadena gelatoria in 2007.

(Stepono Baltera / The Time)

The 55 -year -old said he had insurance at his restaurant, which could compensate for some of his losses, but not everything.

He started Gofundme Rock money to start in a new place and support its employees until the Ultadeena restaurant is safely reopened.

Bulgarini is still in trouble with outsiders who believe that he should be well, as many of her restaurants are still in the burning of her restaurants.

“Bulgarini is not right,” he said about his restaurant. “We are not the winner. We have lost your house. So you have lost your sanctuary and you have lost your business now because it is not going to be for a while. There is no winner here.

Bulgarini and Shakmali have tried to help themselves or their employees for most of their days. They lead the illusion of documents required for Federal Emergency Management Agency and Insurance Companies.

Bulgarini said he had not had much time to mourn for the loss of her home in the Spanish bungalow in 1923.

Leo Bulgarini stands in the midst of the wreckage of the Altadena house destroyed after the fire.

At the place where the Ultadeena destroyed the house after the fire of Leo Bulgarini Eaton.

(Albert Lee / Los Angeles Times)

He and his wife, Elizabeth, are very busy between finding a new place to open the restaurant and their 17 -year -old son Lorenzo.

Bulgarini pushes herself. He has to work, so he can pay his fees, and he has to protect his sanity.

But there are some moments – usually at night – Bulgarini cannot be heartbroken. The questions are overflowing in disability.

“Why can't you do too much?” He thinks in himself. “Why can't you save your friend's house?”

For many years, he realized that if he wrote what he was thinking, he helped me get out of this kind of funk.

On Tuesday night, he wrote the pencil on the paper: “I'm still alive.”

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