Fresno Office Building on West Shaw went up in smoke today, Wednedsay, October 20, 2010
This afternoon the building diagnolly across the parking lot from our Keller Williams Realty office went up in smoke. Apparently a company was working on the two story building's roof when the something went wrong and the crane working on the building caused a fire to begin.
The rest of this story is just what I HEARD, and you know how that goes, so nothing has been verified!!! Word or rumor has it that they didn't call the Fire department immediately, the workers tried to extinguish the fire themselves.It is being said that this delay caused much more damage to the inside of the building. Had the firefighters been able to respond quicker, they could have saved more of the building from being smoke damaged.
This evening we were told that part of the building and it's contents were ruined because of smoke damage. I feel for the folks who have their businesses here in this building.
Shaw Avenue was backed up for 3+ hours today and traffic was rerouted as the four fire engine crews worked on putting out the fire.
Below is some video footage taken of the fire in the very beginning.
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