A Cornwall, Connecticut, lumber company was heavily damaged in a fire late Monday night.
No one was inside when flames broke out at Northwest Lumber & Hardware at 26 Kent Road on Monday at about 11:30 p.m., but the building was still smoldering as of 5:40 a.m. Tuesday.
But the fire is a loss for the community.
"Hopefully they'll get back on their feet and rebuild, but now people are out of work even some of the firefighters here now actually worked here," Cornwall firefighter Gordon Ridgway said.
Neighbors reported seeing a glow in the sky, smelling the smoke and fealing the heat.
Twenty-one region fire departments from New Milford to New York state responded to help put out the massive blaze because of the large amount of material inside fueling the flames.
No one was injured.
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There were no fire hydrants nearby, so crews shuttled in water from the Housatonic River using tankers.
While the river is nearby, the cold weather made obtaining it a challenge.
Route 7 was closed for several hours, but it has since reopened.
