Number of firefighters are here battling this fire. They had to get out of the building fast because the roof has collapsed. Their only job right now is to try and keep this fire from spreading. The fire started around 8 30 tonight at this furniture and upholstery store and it spread quickly. Its an older strip mall so the infrastructure is very old. Authorities say they dont believe anyone was inside the building at the time. Witnesses say the owners of the Furniture Store are out of town and the owners of sweet Fingers Restaurant are worried. What happened was there was a big boom and everybody started running from the back of the restaurant. Were just waiting for them to put it out. F about an hour or more. The challenges going into a furnishing shop, itsompl in na. They had a lot of obstacle as they went a lot of combustiblesn the building, a heavy fire load. So the fire rapidly expanded on them and they had to pull back. Now theyre in defensive mode. Reporter firefighters were rea