CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A large storage warehouse on Charleston’s West Side is set to to be demolished Monday after an early morning fire ripped through the structure.

Charleston Fire Department Captain David Hodges said the building, located at the corner of Virginia Street West and 7th Avenue, was unstable and unsafe after the fire.

Hodges said the building has been used for storage and was supposed to be unoccupied but two people were rescued from a third story window minutes after crews arrived on scene at about 4 a.m. Monday.

“They (firefighters) quickly went to work and made successful rescues of those people using ground ladders and then they went to work combatting the fire,” Hodges said.

The two people rescued are being treated for smoke inhalation. The building is right across th

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