Southland Books & Café, Maryville, Tenn., faced a challenging cleanup effort after a fire yesterday at another business in its building "left a mess behind to clean up," WBIR reported.
In a call for help on its Facebook page, Southland posted: "As you may know by now, we've had a rough day at Southland Books & Cafe. There was a fire in the woodworking shop on the rear lower level of the building this morning. EVERYONE is OK, and there is no fire damage to the bookstore and cafe. If you're available on Friday, March 16th, we'd like to invite you to a 'cleaning party' at the bookstore--1505 E. Broadway Ave. in Little Five Points--Maryville! The store smells like smoke, and there's a layer of soot covering everything. Please bring friends, cleaning products, towels, paper towels, cleaning supplies, Endust, Pledge, etc.! We'll supply pizza and water."