No one injured in Columbia commercial building fire

Marie Moyer

COLUMBIA, Mo, (KMIZ)

No one was injured after a structure fire started inside the City of Columbia’s Grissum Shop Building Saturday morning.

According to a press release, the Columbia Fire Department was dispatched at 8:47 a.m. to the 1310 block of Lakeview Avenue after the building’s automatic alarm went off.

Fire crews arrived in four minutes and found the maintenance building locked and secured with the sprinkler system running over the fire. Crews later forced entry into the west side of the building where they found heavy smoke and heat.

It took around 10 minutes for crews to extinguish the fire. A total of 21 people responded to the scene.

The Columbia Fire Marshals are currently investigating the cause of the fire. 

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