SEATTLE (AP) -- Fire heavily damaged a women's clinic where abortions are performed in Olympia, and federal investigators were called in to investigate, authorities said.
The fire early Sunday damaged the roof of the Eastside Women's Health Clinic and caused heat, water and smoke damage in offices, Olympia Fire Capt. Kate McDonald said. No one was injured.
The cause of the fire was unknown, and the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were participating in the investigation, McDonald said. The clinic was closed at the time.
Old medical instruments and documents stored in an attic crawl space were destroyed, co-owner Nancy Armstrong told The Olympian newspaper. Patient records and offices were intact, she said.
Armstrong had no damage estimate and said she didn't know now long it would take to reopen the clinic, which began operation in 1981.
The clinic receives 30 to 40 patients a day.
``We're not out of business,'' Armstrong said.
Arson is among the charges under investigation, McDonald said.
The only confirmed arson at an abortion clinic in the United States last year was at a women's clinic in Lake Worth, Fla., in July, according to the National Abortion Federation. No injuries were reported.
Jan. 22 is the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
