News brief: Rochester fire burns outbuilding

By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

Investigators this morning are looking for the cause of a blaze last night that destroyed a medium-sized one-story shop building in Rochester.

Crews called at 8:47 p.m. to the 16600 block of Jordan Street Southwest found the structure fully involved in flames and fought the fire defensively, according to West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.

The adjacent house and shed were steaming from radiant heat, so they protected those buildings from igniting, Chief Robert Scott said.

Firefighters were on the scene into the early hours this morning, Scott said.

Nobody was injured and he wasn’t sure what the shop building contained, Scott said.

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