Multiple agencies responded to a structure fire in Big Bend on Friday, April 19. It happened near Industrial and Edgewood.
It was just after 9 p.m. when Greg Peterson got the call.
"Sick. Sick to my stomach," said Peterson. "I mean look at the steel, just crumbled. Just melted.”
His longtime landscaping business, Extreme Exteriors, went up in flames.
“23 years, we had that. Just kind of sad," said Peterson. “It’s amazing what fire can do.”
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department says it's likely the fire began because of wood staining rags. More than 20 area fire department agencies responded to the call. The fire departments were able to contain the fire and no other businesses were affected, according to the sheriff's office. No one was injured.
“There were so many fire trucks and so many people that helped," said Peterson.