Flames ripped through a long-time pizza shop in Luzerne County Wednesday night.
Larksville Fire Chief Mike Petriga says he got the call around 11 p.m. Wednesday for a fire at Reece's Classic Pizza in Larksville on East Main Street, up to a couple of hours after the owner locked up.
"It had like a two-hour jump start on us," said the chief. "It could have been 9; it could have been 10 (p.m.)." The fire chief says it was hard to tell where the fire might have started, because of all the smoke.
"The area was just filled with heavy black smoke coming from the building and whatnot because with the doors being shut and everything else," he said.
Chief Petriga says around seven departments rushed to fight the fire, and it took until almost 2 a.m. Thursday to completely put it out.