Giovanni Di Quattro, owner of the Rainbow Café, watched nervously as firefighters battled the three-alarm fire billowing out of the Heritage Building at 134 E. Main St. late Tuesday afternoon, just east of his restaurant.
It was one of his cooks who discovered the fire, which ignited in a laundry room of the two-story building.
“I just hope they can keep the fire from spreading,” Di Quattro said.
Eric Robertson, Valley Regional Fire Authority administrator said: “We’ve been told that it started as a drier fire. They’ve put an immense amount of water on it to put it out. And as you can see to the left, they’re trying to ensure it doesn’t spread to the next building.”