On Thursday, officials with the McDowell County Emergency Management said that overnight crews had made progress fighting the fire at Chamad Warehouse.
According to officials, several hot-spots are still present and today, firefighters will transition to monitoring the complex and addressing the hot spots.
On Wednesday, firefighters from Burke, Mitchell, Rutherford, and Buncombe Counties were on scene of the massive fire in Marion.
According to Will Keller, Emergency Services Director for McDowell County, the call came in at 12:33 a.m. for a fire at the Chamad Warehouse on Virginia Road near the Clinchfield community.
At this time the cause of the fire is unknown. We're told that the warehouse typically used to store cotton and that no one is believed to have been inside when the fire began.
We're told one firefighter suffered a minor leg injury while fighting the fire on the outside portion of the warehouse.