ROCKPORT, Texas — A few businesses in Rockport weren't able to open their doors on Tuesday.
Those two businesses that took most of the damage were Ngo's Dine In and RK's style team. Local officials tell us tat it's too early to tell what caused the fire.
"There was smoke; there was carbon dioxide," said Gillian Cox with the Rockport Volunteer Fire Department. "We had to ventilate many of the businesses so they're all kind of on an altered schedule. It appears to us that two businesses had major losses, and then four to six others had trouble operating today."
"There's a lot of information that we don't know," said Commander Larry Sinclair with the Rockport Police Department, "I can say that there are no obvious sign of an incendiary fire or arson fire."
Sinclair did say there is one red flag. On April 1, around 1:30 a.m. fire crews were sent to a locally owned restaurant Pier 77. Rockport police said Pier 77 and Ngo's owners come from the same family.
"The fact that you have two restaurants that are both owned by family members, there's a question," said Sinclair.
He said the Texas State Fire Marshal's office was called to take over the fire investigation.
"We want to make sure we bring in professionals that are highly skilled in investigating fires and determining their cause, determining where they originated at," Sinclair said. "It breaks my heart that this happened to them, but we want to make sure that we bring some resolution to that family."
The investigators from the State's Fire Marshall's office will get into Rockport on Wednesday.
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