A pizzeria beloved by locals burned early Monday morning.
The 2-alarm fire at the Circle Inn Pizzeria started a little before midnight at its 2253 N. Main Street location in Sunset.
With the restaurant completely engulfed in flames, it took crews hours to douse the fire as they also attempted to protect a nearby furniture store. By the time first responders arrived, the building's roof had already collapsed. Their big concern was trying to save Skinny Al’s furniture store, which is just a few feet away from the pizzeria.
Making things even more challenging, all the water poured onto the fire quickly turned into ice due to temperatures in the low teens.Chief Mark Becraft with the North Davis Fire District said the restaurant closed at 10 p.m., and the alarm came in around 11:30 p.m. "This is an older building — it’s unprotected, it doesn’t have a sprinkling system in it, so the fire runs really rapidly through the attic and it didn’t take long for it to spread through it," Becraft said.The restaurant has been in this location since 1957. The third-generation owner choked up recalling that family history.“It’s my life. It was here before I was born,” said Garrett Schroeder. The pizzeria was started by his grandfather and has been in the family ever since.