A fire at Olalla Food Center on Sunday afternoon forced employees and customers to evacuate and has closed the store due to damages. According to a statement from South Kitsap Fire & Rescue, crews responded to a commercial structure fire at the store on Olalla Valley Road around 12:30 p.m. April 12, Capt. Laine Desilets, public information officer with South Kitsap Fire & Rescue, said.
Employees reportedly evacuated with two customers after they heard a loud sound from the back storeroom, and proceeded to call 911. According to Desilets, the first crews at the scene observed heavy smoke and flames coming from an exterior access door. A total of 22 apparatus from SKFR, Bremerton Fire Department, Key Peninsula Fire, Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One arrived to extinguish the fire.
Desilets said it took firefighters just under an hour to control the fire, and some crews remained at the store for about three hours. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Kitsap County Fire Marshal. No civilians or emergency responders were injured, Desliets said, although the Olalla Food Center sustained extensive damages to the building’s interior. An estimate of damage to the building is currently unknown.
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