4.15pm:
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Adam Tucker was staying in the motel above Cache and was evacuated after alarms went off across the hall. He was told the fire resulted from a clothes dryer.
“I just hope I haven’t lost my stuff,” he said.
“If it was going to spread anywhere it would have been to my room.”
He was surprised by the amount of smoke that filled the air when he exited the building.
3.55pm:
Ambulance Wagga frontline officer Darren Rudd said one man was being treated for smoke inhalation and is in a stable condition.
He said all others in the building had been accounted for.
The blaze has finally been extinguished.
3.36pm:
The smoke is easing around the Cache building and firefighters appear to be bringing the blaze under control.
Police have set up a perimeter and about 20 onlookers remain on the northern side of it, while about 100 people are gathered on the southern side.
3.13pm:
FIRE crews are battling a blaze at a Baylis Street business after the building housing the Cache cafe erupted in flames this afternoon.
Two fire crews, police and ambulance are currently on the scene, with dense smoke filling the air and flames visible at the top of the building.
Police are frantically trying to move people on as they capture photos and video on their mobile phones of the scene.
It is not known if anyone has been injured or how the fire started.
More to come.