Crews ‘suspicious’ of how vacant commercial building caught fire in Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY — A building in the process of being demolished caught fire Tuesday, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department.

Huge billows of smoke were initially coming from the building near 1655 West and North Temple.  SLCFD’s Capt. Brandt Hancuff said fire crews suspected the nature of the fire’s origin was suspicious, and an investigation was underway. The fire was extinguished just before 8 a.m.

The single-story building was a vacant commercial building, Hancuff said. There were no injuries were reported.

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