Inside the store, which was charred black. It is evident that the entire merchandise was destroyed by the fire.The entire building is eerily sooty, and some of the walls are peeling off. The interior was charred black, and most of the merchandise was ruined. Smoke was rising from the flammable goods.   The fire broke out at the Ken Depot Soka Sezaki store, a building material store in Soka City, Saitama Prefecture, shortly around 5 p.m. on June 13. The fire was contained about 13 hours later, at 6 p.m. on June 14, but when this magazine’s photographer visited the scene the next day, the store was in a raw state. The store was completely destroyed by fire. The building is a one-story reinforced concrete structure with an area of about 1,971 square meters (about the size of a junior high school site). The fire also spread to a nearby house. The store is a membership shop. At the time of the fire, the restaurant was open for business and there were more than a dozen employees and several customers inside, but fortunately no one was killed and a 42-year-old female staff member sustained only minor injuries from smoke inhalation. Working at the store until just before the fire.