The price of holding back nature has come home, fire officials say.

Fire officials said response times were still below the national average of six minutes.

It was built in 1991 and cost $500,000, fire officials said.

Fire officials said they believed that the three men were the only people in the building at the time.

Fire officials later tried hard to play down the damage.

Fire officials said tonight that at least 100 people were still waiting to return to their homes.

Fire officials said that an outside investigation was not needed.

Fire officials said it was not clear who placed the call.

But fire officials would not comment on any evidence found at the scene.

One fire official said at least three people were killed in the neighborhood.