A day after a three-alarm fire destroyed a south Minneapolis store and damaged a neighboring building owned by the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, occupants assessed the damage on Monday.
Abdullahi Omar said he was restocking the shelves of his store at 1300 E. Franklin Ave. on Sunday afternoon and had gone down to the basement when he heard his brother yelling. When he came back upstairs, he saw smoke rising from the north side of the building.
Omar said he grabbed a fire extinguisher, but the flames were already too high. He said that by the time fire crews arrived a short time later, flames had spread through the building. Omar and his brother evacuated the building safely…