Wind gusts were reaching speeds up to 40mph at the time of the fire.
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It is suspected a towel used to extinguish an earlier fire reignited.
Students at a drama practice in the building had been evacuated.
There was no interruption to the business' operations and no injuries.
An occupant was transported from the scene under advanced life support protocols.
"We are seeing more and more fires across our region. The grass is extremely dry."
All occupants were able to safely evacuate although a pet cat was unaccounted for.
Firefighters arrived to see vehicles parked outside but no one outside, so they launched "an aggressive search" inside the burning structure.
Over 500 PSE customer addresses were impacted by the outage which reportedly began about 1:15pm.