Business owners devastated after massive fire destroys storefronts

MILLCREEK, Utah — Business owners from fourteen local Utah businesses are now scrambling to survive after a massive, three-alarm fire in a next door apartment complex under construction destroyed their storefronts.

Business owners are not allowed back into their stores because of the danger of two large damaged cranes nearby, but from the outside, their stores are all but destroyed with smoke, fire and water damage.

“It’s a shame… it’s sad…,” said Cy Waldren, Co-Owner of the business park that housed the local businesses. “All these businesses have been struggling trying to make it through the pandemic and then this unfortunate event happens.”

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Glade Baldwin is another person whose livelihood was lost in Wednesday’s fire.

“I wish I could blame the red eyes…on the smoke,” Baldwin said while fighting back tears, “but it’s sad for me…”

Baldwin owns Hyland Pharmacy and has been…

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