A fire at what Smithsonian Magazine once called \u201cLos Angeles\u2019 strangest museum\u201d caused smoke damage to some exhibits but resulted in no injuries before it was put out Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which is housed in a two-story commercial building at 9341 W. Venice Boulevard, according to Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.<\/p>\n
Multiple callers reported seeing flames coming from a window, Humphrey said. Crews arrived to find smoke coming from the building.<\/p>\n
Firefighters learned the owner, who lives behind the building, heard a smoke alarm and used two fire extinguishers to keep the blaze in check. The fire was extinguished by 12:05 a.m., Humphrey said.<\/p>\n
The fire started near a mail window by the first-floor entrance and traveled up the wall to the ceiling. Its cause remained undetermined, Humphrey said.<\/p>\n
The fire caused smoke damage of undisclosed severity throughout the building. No dollar loss estimate was provided.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1988 by David Wilson and his wife, Diana Drake Wilson, the quirky museum features unusual exhibits such as \u201cRotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay\u201d and \u201cTell the Bee,\u201d which includes folk remedies such as eating dead mice on toast to cure bedwetting, according to the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n
David Wilson, a former entertainment industry model artist, received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, known as a \u201cGenius Grant,\u201d in 2001. The museum was also the subject of the 1995 book \u201cMr. Wilson\u2019s Cabinet of Wonder\u201d by Lawrence Weschler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire at what Smithsonian Magazine once called \u201cLos Angeles\u2019 strangest museum\u201d caused smoke damage to some exhibits…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,39267,11366,5025,2961,21475,224,5337,11365,23492,39268],"class_list":{"0":"post-52527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-causes","11":"tag-damage","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-las","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-museum","18":"tag-smoke","19":"tag-strangest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}