Strong storms rip roof off popular Beechview pizza shop

Destructive storms that moved done Western Pennsylvania connected Tuesday ripped the extortion disconnected a fashionable pizza store successful Pittsburgh.

An worker astatine Fiori’s successful the city’s Beechview says the tempest blew done successful a substance of minutes, sending wood and debris each implicit the street.

“All the lights conscionable turned out, and powerfulness went retired completely,y and this model close present — bricks were flying,” Jake Mihalsky said.

Those bricks present beryllium astatine the basal of the window. Mihalsky says those bricks were the lone motion that thing was incorrect arsenic the winds picked up, but present helium knows wherever they came from.

“I didn’t adjacent perceive anything, and I didn’t cognize the extortion flew retired until I came to cheque it, and 1 of my coworkers said that his extortion caved successful connected his girlfriend, but convey deity she’s okay.”

The proprietor tells america the upstairs isn’t afloat exposed and his lone anticipation present is for the powerfulness to beryllium restored.

“I don’t cognize what they are going to bash but hopefully they aren’t closed for excessively long. Business needs to run, pizza needs to beryllium made, I mean everyone needs their Fiori’s.”

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