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Giant plumes of smoke and rivers of water raining down on what may be the last stop of the day for a Sacramento firebug Thursday.

“When there are fires in this old neighborhood..there’s a chance for it to spread from house to house cuz they’re all old and all wood. Scary,” area landlord Ronald Harris said.

Sandy Chandler’s car was stuck in fire zone near 14th and E streets, hemmed in by responding engines.

“I’m from Philadelphia, so I’m used to seeing things like this but not here in Sacramento,” she said.

“We noticed the building burning from the inside and flames were coming out from the garage door,” Shine Cafe owner Amanda Lawrence said.

Lawrence can’t believe early suspicions by Sacramento City Fire investigators that a business just three doors down from her cafe may have been the target of an arsonist.

“It’s kind of rough guessing right now, but the similarity is every single one of the fires today are adjacent to an alley way,” Assistant Sacramento City Fire Chief Niko King said.

Jessica Rhodes had about 35 students inside her Yoga Seed Collective studios on that same when she first got a text about what was happening.

“I dropped the Thai food I was eating and I jumped in my car and came over here and hyperventilated on the way,” she said.

Owners of the  Sacramento Theatrical Lighting Annex were too upset to speak on camera about their building, melting away before their eyes, but a neighboring landlord knows they’ve suffered a huge loss in what was a storage space.

“He had like beautiful old antique cars. He had a couple of ’58 Chevys, which was always my favorite car,” said Harris.

Luckily, memories and material were the only things crews say have been lost to smoke and flames.