Birtle Tire & Auto has been deemed a total loss after a structure fire yesterday morning.
More than 30 firefighters and five trucks from Birtle, Shoal Lake, Miniota and the Monarch Valley Hutterite colony were on scene to battle the blaze which started just before 10:00.
At around 3:00 p.m., the crew was able to extinguish the fire but it was a total loss at that point.
Nobody was hurt in the blaze and the office of the fire commissioner is investigating the cause of the fire.
