An early morning fire gutted two storage buildings off Rockingham Road on Wednesday. The owners lost a lot of personal items, but no one was injured, according to fire officials.
Clyde Locklear, chief of Laurel Hill Fire Department, said firefighters arrived at the scene quickly, but the two storage buildings which had been joined together, were engulfed in flames.
“We got the call at 7:35 and were on scene at 7:42, and it was two-thirds gone by then,” Locklear said.
Seventeen firefighters from the Laurel Hill and Gibson Fire departments and the Forestry Service responded to the blaze.
A neighbor saw the fire, called 911, and alerted the owners, Mark and Latrona Blue. The couple, who are carriers for The Laurinburg Exchange, were out delivering papers when the call came.