The village of Greenwood, N.S., is asking people to conserve water for the next two days because so much was used to fight an overnight fire at an abandoned warehouse in Kingston.

More than 100 firefighters battled the flames from 11 p.m. on Monday to daybreak. The warehouse used by Capital Paper was reduced to rubble

No one was hurt, but crews from Annapolis Royal to Greenwich were needed to keep the flames from the old wooden building from spreading.

"It required huge amounts of water. We had 22 tankers of various sizes on scene. We had aerials. We had to come up over top of buildings to reach this structure. Which was bit of a task. Again, if it wasn’t for our aerials we wouldn’t have been able to fight this as well as we did," said Fire Chief Watson Armstrong.

The village commission is asking people not to wash their cars or use any water that isn’t necessary for the next 48 hours.

Alice Neily, who lives about a kilometre away, said she was worried both the Lions Club and the legion were on fire when she saw flames.

"The fire was huge. This building was huge, it was almost three buildings in one. It used to be a warehouse, then it was a co-op store. Then Capital Paper has been there for years. They just used it as storage," she said.

No one was hurt.

Armstrong said the fire has been deemed suspicious and police are investigating.