4 alarm fire at McMahan's Furniture store in Salem, OR...

Got to work this morning and noticed billowing smoke coming from near front of building. Parked in the parking structure and walked down the alley to see what was up...

The furniture store across the street was on fire (picture above is what the scene looked like when standing right in front of our office)! When I first got to work, they had not even started spraying it with water yet.. They broke open the store front windows, then started nailing it with water. One big pumper truck blew out windows on the opposite side of the building even with so much water! Saw flames once in awhile as a couch or bed would go up in flames.

They sprayed it for a few hours and closed 3 or 4 blocks around. It's smoky in our office now. They had to chop down some of the trees in front of the build because they started on fire and blackened leaves where blowing down the street.

Kind of an exciting morning.

Here's some video and photos published by Statesman Journal...

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/assets/mov/J037236810.MOV

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