A family has been left devastated after a fire engulfed their Alice Springs business early this morning. Firefighters fought for hours to contain the inferno, with investigators still unsure what caused the destructive blaze.
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00:00Flames, billowing smoke and sounds of explosion, stopping Jeffrey Dodds in his tracks on his
00:09commute to work.
00:10I just saw an orange glow and smoke.
00:14My old man was a firefighter so I knew it straight away and I called it in immediately.
00:20Fire crews arrived on the scene at George Crescent off the Stuart Highway around 6 this
00:25morning to the industrial equipment shop engulfed in flames.
00:30It's an industrial supply shop so they would have spray cans, they would have oils, they
00:35would have jerry cans in there so through the nature of the business they conduct you
00:40could safely deduce that there were explosions.
00:44Firefighters spent hours battling the blaze, locals watching on as the inferno raged.
00:50When the roof collapsed in, that's when it just went, you could see flames up.
00:57Thanks to the quick work of emergency crews, no injuries have been reported.
01:03The family who owns the business devastated after watching their livelihood go up in flames.
01:11I know the business owners that are on scene, they're quite devastated, you can see it appears
01:16to be a complete loss to the structure and their business and they'll be absolutely devastating
01:20that family.
01:21A heavy blow for these small business owners.