Police investigate suspicious fire at the home of former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez

San Diego police are investigating a suspicious fire at the residence of former Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez and her husband, San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher.

“Our entire family is safe. No one is injured. That’s all that matters,” Gonzalez wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet.

According to a statement released by Fletcher, around 4 a.m. on Wednesday the family was awoken by smoke alarms.

“The front of our house was engulfed in flames, but we were able to safely evacuate out another door,” Fletcher said in the statement.

San Diego police and firefighters were quickly on the scene, and firefighters were able to put out the flames, Fletcher said.

Fletcher, a Democrat, recently was selected to continue his role as chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for 2022. According to Fox 5, Fletcher often serves “as the face of San Diego County’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.”

Gonzalez, also a Democrat, recently stepped down from her position in the Assembly, where she chaired the powerful Assembly Appropriations Committee, in order to prepare to take over leadership of the California Labor Federation this summer.

As a lawmaker, Gonzalez was an outspoken supporter of the labor movement, and the principal author of Assembly Bill 5, which sought to reclassify many independent contractors as regular employees.