St. Louis firefighters on Friday were battling flames that started at a warehouse before growing into a six-alarm fire.
The fire broke out at around 3 a.m. at the Crunden-Martin Manufacturing Co. complex, which contains multiple brick buildings, the St. Louis Fire Department said, according to regional news site Riverbender.com.
The warehouses are not in regular use, but firefighters evacuated multiple homeless people from the affected buildings.
No injuries have been reported, St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said, according to the city’s KSDK.
The fire was expected to rage until Sunday due to the warehouses’ combustible material, including old wood. At one point, the flames reached heights of 200 to 300 feet, Chief Jenkerson said, according to KMOV, another St. Louis station.
With the blaze labeled a six-alarm fire, firefighters from across the city were called in, which led the fire department to call up a B shift to maintain coverage across the rest of St. Louis, according to Riverbender.com.
The buildings date to between 1904 and 1918, according to BuiltStLouis.net, and fell out of regular use after Crunden-Martin filed for bankruptcy in 1990.
