POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A warehouse fire sent black smoke billowing over Pompano Beach on Saturday evening, prompting a large response from multiple fire departments.
Black smoke could be seen pouring into the air as fire crews rushed to the warehouse at 120 NW 15th St.
Business owner Tyrus Dexter arrived before dawn to assess the damage.
He had several bays of equipment inside the warehouse and said he was woken up by a dreadful call.
“Gotta get there, gotta see what’s going on,” he said. “I have a lot of expensive stuff in there.”
Wesley Vincent was working next door at a dealership around 6 p.m. when he noticed something was wrong.
“It was worse than this. It was way worse. You couldn’t even stand over there,” Vincent said.
At first, he thought the smoke was coming from a car he was working on.
“I thought it was a car until I looked up and I seen the smoke coming that way,” he said. “And I walked towards it and seen it was bad.”
Cellphone video shows orange flames spreading from inside the warehouse through the doorway.
Vincent said the warehouse was closed and someone used a forklift to break it open. Video also shows someone trying to put out the flames with a hose.
“He tried to take it out with a hose, but we all knew that wasn’t gonna work,” Vincent said.
He then called 911.
Firefighters quickly responded to the warehouse.
Video shows the fire continuing to grow as thick black smoke blanketed the warehouse while a crowd gathered to watch.
“It was like black smoke everywhere,” Vincent said.
The fire prompted a large response, with firefighters from Pompano Beach, Coconut Creek, Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue, Fort Lauderdale and other departments responding to the scene.
Dexter said he has been renting space at the warehouse since 2013 for his DJ business.
He said much of his property was ruined.
“I’ve been doing this since I was a kid,” he said. “It’s a sad song, I’ve gotta go hoe and write about it.”
The cause of the fire has not been released.
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