Vanderburgh County dispatch confirms there was a working commercial structure fire Saturday at Pike’s Mattress.
According to dispatch, the call came in at 4:09 p.m.
Black smoke seen even from the Lloyd Expressway filled the sky and sirens started to fill Division Street in Evansville as Pike’s Mattress became engulfed in flames.
“There was a lot of smoke coming at us,” said viewer, John Fowler. “The wind was blowing that way, and we saw the smoke coming out of the building then and then it just blew up from there.” John Fowler was in his car headed to dinner when, like many other people, he couldn’t help but stop at what he was seeing and feeling.
“You could just feel the heat from it, it was an intense heat,” said Fowler. “All these firefighters are just really getting blasted by the heat from it.”
The firefighters were blasted by that heat for hours.