Small businesses in Lyons are still picking up the pieces after a fire tore through several stores on Main Street earlier this week
Chain-link gates, plywood and yellow tape are what drivers see as soon as they drive into Main Street now. Even days later, the smell of the fire still hangs in the air.
"We called up any artists that we had that had any inventory left and said, Come here," explained Tamara Haddad, who helped set up the silent auction to benefit the artists impacted by the fire. "At about 11 o'clock, I smelled a little faint smell of smoke," said Holly Beck, the owner of the studio who eventually found smoke in the basement and called 911."I just ran around and made sure everyone was out of the building. I only had time to like go back in my shop, grab my computer and my purse. Within probably five minutes, there was smoke and fire and flames billowing out.
"I thought in my head that I would be able to go back later that day or the next day and get rid of some smoke smell and wipe a few things off, and it'd be OK. And that is not what happened," Beck said.
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