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Fire Damages Waterboro Strip Mall

Firefighters responded to a fire at Brookfield Place plaza in Waterboro around 10 a.m. Sunday.

There was so much damage that the cause of the fire, which destroyed the strip mall, may never be known.

Crews contained the blaze within an hour and a half. Fire Marshal Sgt. Scott Richardson says all indications are that the fire started in the area of the Asian Taste Restaurant, one of three businesses in the shopping complex, and quickly spread to the other businesses.

“No one was in the Asian Taste Restaurant at the time,” he says.

Richardson says the building was a total loss as well as everything in the building, including equipment and items to be sold. He says firefighters had to knock the sides of building down and get the roof off to put the fire out.

No patrons were injured in the blaze but a firefighter was treated for possible heat exhaustion.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.