Cause of Downtown Fire still under investigation

where it was coming from. julie garcia – “i even checked outside to se if it was this building because i didn’t know.” when we went outside nothing yet just smokes and smoke. later, when fd came,then we saw the flames. carlos briano, epfd spokesman: “so they starte attacking the fire, went inside, checking for people inside, to see where the fire was.” julie garcia: “we were hoping nobody was inside. so nobody would get hurt but we didn’t know carlos briano, epfd spokesman: ‘”a they were fighting the fire and looking for people inside, the fire pierced the roof which is very dangerous situation for firefighters.” carlos briano, epfd spokesman: “so the started exiting the building for safety and were attacking the building from the outside.” julie garcia: “i fou out a little while ago the roof caved in or whatever. we’re glad nobody was inside. that’s all. different points of view on that massive fire in downtown el paso. from confused and scared bystanders… … to the brave firefighters who stormed the burning building … then forced back out by the growing flames. abc-seven’s complete coverage continues … … from the six- hundred block of south el paso street. that’s where investigators are still assessing the damage at a store called “l mexicanita.” they’re also trying to find a cause of the fire that started burning just after 8 o’clock last night, and continued to burn through the early morning hours. today we learned just how much more dangerous the blaze would’ve been had fighters not been able to contain it to one business. abc-seven’s complete coverage continues live… … with reporter darren hunt live in downtown el paso … darren. rick and estela, take a look at this … this is la mexicanita, a women’s clothing store that last night’s fire completely gutted … and right next door is this perfume store with thousands of bottles of highly flammable substances containing alcohol: “last night, i thought that was gonna happen, i was surprised this morning that it didn’t.” gustavo tavera owns a store near la mexicanita … “i was worried and i panicked but i was able to sleep a couple of hours and this morning i find out nothing happen to my store and i’m just very grateful.” “let me show you how close this fire came to taking the entire block of south el paso street … right next door to la mexicanita is alex’s perfumeria … here they have tens of thousands of bottles of perfume and cologne … this fire could have accelerated quickly had it got in here.” “fire department is saying if fire had gotten to this place, probably the whole block they wouldn’t have been able to stop it … you could say it’s like gasoline, it’s just very, very explosive or very flammable.” “what do you think this would have looked like had it gotten in this store?” “man i don’t even want to think about it.” christian borjas works at alex’s … he was there just after the fire started next door. “man it was horrible, everybody was scared, we were just waiting to see what happened.” “gotta feel i guess a little bi stung today but a little bit lucky too?” “exactly, yeah, because we’re fine, everybody’s fine, nobody’s injured so that’s the most important thing.” “it’s very tragic, because he lost everything … ” taver told me he knows the man who owns la mexicanita. “for the good of my neighbors for the good of everybody downtown, they should come and look into every single building and what’s good, what’s bad and what needs to be fixed.” the fire department is still investigating the cause of the fire … fire officials told me this building has been inspected the past three years and has not had any fire code violations during that time. city officials said there haven’t been any building code violations either. rick/estela. the las cruces fire department still isn’t saying what caused a house