A fire department report says the fire on Easter Sunday at the Murrells Inlet building containing Big Ass Sandwich Co. and Saloon and two other businesses started in an upstairs room where video poker machines were found.

Video poker has been outlawed in South Carolina since 1999.

You can read the first report of this fire published on Sunday in this article at MyrtleBeachRestaurantNews.com. In a separate update you can read about the fire department report and what the restaurant owner says about the video poker machines.

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