ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WLNE) — Flames tore through an Attleboro restaurant overnight and destroyed nearly everything inside.

The inside of El Buen Sazon was in ruins, after co-owner Delmy Amaya said the restaurant had opened only months ago.

“We did a lot of hard work, with my husband, my comadres, and my compadres,” Amaya said. “We did a lot of work and then this happened.”

Attleboro Fire District Chief Steve Stellakis said the alarm rang out around 1:30 a.m., and firefighters rushed to Pine Street to find flames shooting through the building’s roof.

“Once you’ve lost the integrity of the roof you also lose the integrity of load-bearing walls and the structure becomes really unstable,” Stellakis said.

Crews had no choice but to pull out and let the building burn from inside, something St

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