VIDEO: A popular fast food restaurant on a busy stretch of road is temporarily shut down after a fire sent workers running to safety.
It happened Monday at the McDonald’s off Northside Drive, where there are several other fast food restaurants nearby. Channel 2's Tom Jones showed the damage, live on Channel 2 Action News at Noon.
Firefighters spent a couple of hours dousing flames that were coming from the back of the McDonald’s. That’s where one of the restaurant’s signs caught on fire and had employees quickly getting out of the restaurant.
“An actual off duty firefighter called it in,” Atlanta Fire Capt. Justin Turner told Jones.
Around the same time, the owner of the restaurant said one of his workers inside realized something was wrong.