Large fire consumes tire shop in historic downtown Wilson

Wilson, N.C. — Crews battled a monolithic occurrence astatine a tyre store successful historical downtown Wilson Wednesday night.

Around 8 p.m., the Wilson Fire Department responded to a occurrence astatine the B & S Wholesale Tire Center, located beside the fashionable Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park.

Firefighters said the blaze was nether power successful a small implicit an hour, but crews remained astatine the country into Thursday greeting to enactment retired blistery spots that formed.

A full of thirty-five firefighters were connected scene.

A antheral who lives successful the flat analyzable crossed the thoroughfare told WRAL News it was scary to spot however gangly the flames were.

There were nary injuries arsenic a effect of the fire.

An probe is being launched into the origin of the fire.