FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) — A gay Fort Worth night club was heavily damaged by an early Thursday morning fire. According club employees, they had just closed the establishment down before noticing smoke coming from the building.
Justin McCarty use to work at the club and says he’s not surprised that the building caught fire.
“It was just pieced together, like extension cords, bare wiring, a bunch of wires that went nowhere that were live. It was an electrical nightmare. I’m shocked this hadn’t happened before,” said McCarty.
Firefighters where notified of the blaze around 3 a.m. and had to send eight trucks to the scene. The roof of the building would eventually collapse.
The infamous bar is the only gay night club in Fort Worth and is the site of a controversial raid by the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission in 2009, which resulted in two men being injured and three TABC workers losing their job.