TOPEKA, Kan. — Firefighters have worked in freezing rain to battle a fire that appeared to do significant damage to a nearly abandoned shopping mall in south Topeka.
Local news reports said firefighters were called to the White Lakes Mall at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Multiple crews fought the blaze and appeared to have it mostly under control after about an hour. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the mall property includes one remaining business, a printing company that apparently didn’t sustain damage.
The mall opened in 1964, but its popularity waned when a new mall opened in west Topeka in 1988.
