Overview
- The fire, discovered around 11:50 p.m. Monday by a patrolling Sauk Centre officer, sent smoke and flames from the second floor of a two-story Main Street building.
- The officer called in firefighters and, with another officer, cleared residents from the upstairs apartments.
- Sauk Centre firefighters knocked down the blaze with help from four neighboring departments and support from ambulance crews, sheriff’s offices, state patrol, utilities, MnDOT, a tow company, and the State Fire Marshal.
- Five apartments and three ground-floor businesses were heavily damaged, and no injuries were reported.
- Residents displaced from the building have temporary housing arranged as investigators work to determine what sparked the blaze.