Firefighters responded shortly after 8:49 p.m. to a call reporting flames visible from a structure along the ship canal in the 300 block of Ewing Street. Early responders reported flames up to 100 feet in the air from a warehouse. At the peak of the incident, a total of three buildings and two large sheds were on fire. The contents of the building were mostly lumber. Firefighters fought defensively from outside the warehouse.