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Mar 21, 2013 · The homeowner, Gerhard Becker, had been asleep with his girlfriend in the bedroom on the lower level when they heard water gushing down the stairs. The sprinkler pipes had melted in the walls.
Jan 4, 2014 · Mr. Becker, who built the home and had recently moved in, fled with his girlfriend on that night in February 2011. By the time firefighters arrived, the entire attic was engulfed in flames....
Jan 3, 2014 · Days after Becker was permitted to move in, a fire awoke him and his girlfriend at night. After the fire, authorities determined that Becker built long, natural-gas fire pits meant for...
Apr 5, 2013 · Becker says he thought it would be safe and wouldn’t have been sleeping in the home at the time of the fire himself, with his girlfriend, if he had thought it posed a hazard. At issue in the...
Jan 3, 2014 · Architect Gerhard Becker pleaded no contest this morning to involuntary manslaughter in the death of firefighter Glenn Allen, who died on Feb. 16, 2011, trying to extinguish a blaze at...
Jan 6, 2014 · Gerhard Becker was sentenced to one year in county jail and three years of probation after pleading no contest in the case of a firefighter killed in a 2011 fire at a Hollywood Hills home.
Feb 15, 2012 · At the scene of the fire, the Times interviewed a woman who said she was Becker's girlfriend. She said her boyfriend owned the property, and that “city inspectors had just approved a...
