KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A building well-known to residents of Kansas City, Missouri’s Manheim and Hyde Park neighborhood caught fire early Friday, leaving behind significant damage.
Around 6:50 a.m., fire crews responded to the “pink building” in the 4300 block of Troost Avenue.
The first fire crews on the scene reported the building already engulfed in heavy fire and smoke conditions and set up ladder trucks to fight the blaze from above.
Because of the heat of the fire, a home just to the east also caught fire. Though crews were able to extinguish the fire at the home, it suffered significant damage.
Inspectors with the city’s dangerous buildings unit have responded to assess the structure of the original building that caught fire.
The building just to the north that is home to the Equal Minded Cafe was also damaged. The cafe posted Friday morning that they would not be able to open, with some of the “pink building” having collapsed into the parking lot of the cafe.
It took firefighters nearly two hours to bring the original fire under control, with hot spots being put out as of 8:45 a.m.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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