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UPDATE: Fire closes 10th Street Pizza Express

An electrical fire at the Crosstown Plaza Pizza Express on Tuesday morning gutted the store's office as smoke spread to the three other businesses in the building.\nPizza Express, 1791 E. 10th St., will be closed for at least one to two weeks as workers repair the fire and smoke damage, said Dave Schwandt, the manager of One World Enterprises, the company that owns Pizza Express. \nThe Bloomington-based pizza chain will try to reroute many of its delivery customers through the three other stores in town, though sales at the store on 10th Street account for the biggest chunk of Pizza Express' business.\n"It will definitely cost us," Schwandt said. \nThe Bloomington Fire Department responded to an active fire call at Pizza Express and a possible electrical problem next door at Lennie's at about 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, said Bloomington Fire Department Chief Jeff Barlow. When they arrived, firefighters found a fire in the office of Pizza Express. Fire crews extinguished the blaze in about 20 minutes and were able to prevent it from spreading beyond the Pizza Express store. No one was injured. \nThough investigators were still examining the cause of the fire, they believe it might have started at the circuit breaker, Barlow said.\nSchwandt said he hopes to open Lennie's again Tuesday night or Wednesday afternoon at the latest. The 10th Street Dagwood's, which is in the same building as the Pizza Express, was just awaiting the all-clear from health inspectors to reopen and should be up and running Tuesday night, said Dagwood's owner John Santos.

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