“I pulled up our security camera and I could see the flames and the smoke. So I called 911,” Watson said.
In a Facebook video, Watson said the fire started in her studio and “appears to be electrical in nature” before it spread to the restaurant next door, the Verde Bistro. “This business represents our entire life savings. We put all of it here so we have no savings, but we’re going to have a roof over our head and food on our table,” Watson said. “These young families working in the buildings, my two assistants, you know, these are people on fixed incomes or, you know, raising small families. And I just I’m worried for them.”