PHOTOS: A fire damaged the lumber yard at Safford Builders Supply/Ace Hardware late Thursday night. While an amount of lumber and metal roofing supplies were destroyed, there were no injuries and the business was open bright and early Friday morning. Safford Police and the Safford Fire Department were dispatched at about 10 p.m. To a report of a fire at the store at 707 S. 6th Ave. According to ACE owner Preston Owens, store surveillance footage shows the fire starting at about 10 p.m. With firefighters arriving just six minutes later to battle it. “They made a good stop on it,” Owens said. “They were really quick.”