The roof of a flooring business in St. Paul collapsed Sunday afternoon after a fire ripped through the building.
What is that black smoke in St. Paul? Fire causes roof of flooring store to collapse
Crews were working to extinguish the blaze at Fulton Flooring on Sunday afternoon.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
March 2, 2025 at 10:43PM
Crews responded shortly after 1 p.m. to a blaze at 315 Atwater St., said Jamie Smith, deputy chief of the St. Paul Fire Department. No injuries were reported, he added.
The address is listed as the location of Fulton Flooring.
Early in the afternoon, Smith said firefighters continued to work to extinguish the flames on the building’s exterior.
“We are in defensive strategy, which means firefighters are not committing to the interior until they get in control of the fire from the exterior,” Smith said, adding an investigation will begin when the fire is contained.
No details about the cause of the fire were immediately available.
By 2:30 p.m., the Fire Department posted on X that the bulk of the fire was out and crews were checking for hot spots. The city’s Department of Safety and Inspections has scheduled the building to be demolished.
Felicia Reilly is reportedly the first woman officer in St. Paul to die as a result of injuries sustained in the line of duty.
