It took more than 40 firefighters roughly half an hour to put out a warehouse fire in southeast Charlotte overnight that has since been ruled arson.
The flames broke out inside the Workman Installation Services building on Cherry Tripp Drive, just off Independence Boulevard shortly before midnight.
When fire crews arrived they encountered heavy flames and smoke and quickly upgraded the call to a second alarm.
The owners told Channel 9 smoke and flames destroyed nearly everything inside in the warehouse.
Crews were cleaning out the building, pulling all of the burned debris into an alley behind it.
The owner, Ryan Turner, said someone was in custody, but officials have not confirmed that.
The building stored inventory for a family-owned internet sales business which sells shoes.
Turner told Channel 9 that his alarm company notified him that motion sensors were going off. By the time he left his home just a few minutes away and arrived, he said flames were shooting from the building, and that it looked like someone had set a bonfire in the back.