The Steinbach Fire Department responded to a structure fire on Main Street near the fire hall. 

They were called early Thursday at 12:23am. 

Chief Kel Toews says when they arrived at the boarded-up building, fire was visible from a basement window. 

“We extinguished the fire quickly from the exterior and contained it to the corner of the basement,” he reports. 

Toews adds that nobody was inside the building when they arrived, and the cause is under investigation.