MINNEAPOLIS — Fire crews were in south Minneapolis Wednesday morning fighting a fire burning in the basement of a grain elevator.
Around 6:30 a.m., Minneapolis Fire said crews were called to the vacant, boarded-up grain elevator on East 37th Street and Hiawatha Avenue where they found black smoke showing from the building's upper level and roof.
While firefighters were on the scene, the fire was escalated to a second alarm due to a need for more people and equipment. In an update Wednesday afternoon, the department said crews set up an aerial ladder and dropped "copious" amounts of water down several towers from the upper floors of the building.
According to MFD, it took several hours and a "large amount of water" to knock down the blaze but no one was injured during the incident, which remains under investigation.
The building will be reboarded.
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