Restaurant Damaged, Firefighters Treated In Aspinwall Fire

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – About 30 people were evacuated after a fire broke out at a restaurant in Aspinwall on Saturday.

The Spice Affair restaurant on Brilliant Avenue filled with smoke from the two-alarm fire that may have started from an air conditioning unit in the basement.

More than a dozen customers were in the restaurant when the fire broke out.

"They came out and started yelling, 'Get out of here! Get out of here everybody!' So everybody just grabbed their cell phones and our glasses and we just ran out," restaurant patron Beatrice Korinski said. "There was smoke coming out from the one area where the bar is, and all that smoke was coming out. Our eyes were getting all, you know, with smoke and everything."

Everyone was safely evacuated, but two firefighters were treated on the scene for possible smoke inhalation. Water stations have been set up for the firefighters.

There is currently no word on the extent of the damage. The fire marshal has been called to investigate.