VIDEO/PHOTOS: Wenwood Bay Winery and Restaurant was destroyed when its building caught fire early Sunday morning in Gasconade County.

The Owensville Fire Protection District reported that firefighters arrived around 1:40 a.m. Sunday to find the two-story, 15,000-square-foot building at 2441 State Highway K in the Bay area fully engulfed in flames.

“We could see the fire when we were leaving the city limits of Owensville,” Owensville Fire Chief Jeff Arnold said.

Harsh weather conditions and the distance to the nearest reliable fire hydrant prompted authorities to upgrade the fire to a fourth alarm.

Fire crews from multiple agencies used portable tanks and hand lines to combat the blaze from both the front and back of the building.

“We had roughly 17 different agencies respond, with the temperature and our closest reliable hydrant was all the way back here in Owensville, so it was a great distance to get back to the hydrant to be able to refill. So we were going through quite a bit of water at first, so we needed to have the extra tanker trucks there for water supply,” Arnold said.

KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis

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