SAN ANTONIO – It’s the wake up call that no one wants to get—- that your business is on fire.
“I didn’t expect this,” Mario Guajardo one of the owners of Paradise Flowers and Pinatas said. “At three in the morning you get a call that your shop is on fire...it was shocking.”
He said they opened up the West Side flower shop a year and a half ago. Guajado said first they got hit with the pandemic and now all of their merchandise has been destroyed. He said it’s devastating.
“Everything is gone and there is nothing we can save,” he said.
The San Antonio Fire Department was called around 3 a.m. to a fire at Paradise Flowers & Pinatas in the 100 block of Castroville Road after receiving word of a suspicious fire.
Firefighters said originally a gas can was found in the back of the building but investigators believe it may have started due to bad wiring.
Investigators are still working to determine the exact cause. No one was inside the building and no one was injured.
Fire officials said damage to the building is estimated at $35,000.
As for Guajardo, he said the next step is to clean up and the future of re-opening the shop is unknown.