CENTRALIA — A suspicious fire Saturday night destroyed a building that once housed an ice cream factory and a second hand store at North Locust and Rhodes streets in Centralia.

Centralia City firefighters arrived on scene around 10:55 p.m. Saturday and found heavy smoke coming from the building at 645 North Locust Street. All shifts were ultimately brought in to fight the blaze that quickly tore through the building, and the roof collapsing.

Centralia Fire Protection District provided mutual aide at the scene and ESDA was brought in to block traffic in the area while firefighters fought the blaze.

The fire has been deemed suspicious, as there were no utilities to the building at the time, but there was evidence squatters had been inside.

Firefighters were allowing the building to burn itself out Sunday morning. The Office of the State Fire Marshal has been asked to investigate.