Workers rescued from roof of burning building under construction in La Mesa

Fire trucks spray water on the burning building Photo courtesy of Heartland Fire Rescue A mid-afternoon fire Monday caused an estimated worth of damage to a building under construction in a commercial area near Grossmont Center mall The non-injury blaze erupted shortly after p m Monday in the block of Grossmont Boulevard in La Mesa just east of Jackson Drive and south of Interstate according to Heartland Fire Rescue Firefighters rescued workers from the roof of the partially built structure while extinguishing the flames which took just over an hour to complete reported Andy McKellar spokesman for the agency Investigators who set the monetary losses at about were still working to determine the cause of the fire as of p m McKellar noted