Updated: 11/16/2009 7:19:45 PM
Several businesses in Anderson County spent the day Monday picking up the pieces following an early morning fire.
The fire started around 1:15 in a shopping complex at 39 Edmonds Drive.
A thrift store and beauty shop were destroyed. A Family Dollar suffered heavy fire and smoke damage.
Tressa Vowel, an employee at the Hope Thrift Shop said the flames started inside the store. It was filled with new and used clothes, furniture, and antiques. Vowel said nearly everything inside was destroyed.
Smoke from the fire damaged the Magic Fingers Beauty Salon next door. The owner has been in business for the last 17 years. She plans to temporarily locate while cleaning up from the fire.
Almost everything inside the Family Dollar is covered in soot as well.
Vowel said her fiancé fell asleep in the thrift shop before the fire started.
"He tells me that he woke up and seen the boxes and clothes on fire in front of him, and he's trying to put it out by little buckets of water and it don't, it just spreads," she said.
No one was injured in the fire. A total damage estimate was not immediately available.
The owner of the complex does have insurance.
Investigators are still looking for an exact cause. The Oliver Springs Police Department said the fire appears to be accidental.
