Photos/Story By Mark Smith

About 2:30 a.m., Pasco County Fire Rescue got a call about a fire at the Lakeview Rodeo, 2401 U.S. 19 in Holiday Florida.

Flames already were coming through the roof on the south end when firefighters arrived.

Extinguishing the blaze, which consumed the roof of the building, ended up needing as many as 60 firefighters from Pasco County Fire Rescue, nearly one-fifth of the department, as well as two large ladder trucks and firefighters from the city of New Port Richey and city of Tarpon Springs Fire departments.

The only injury from the blaze occurred when a fire investigator twisted a knee walking through the smoldering rubble, hours after the fire was out.

By the time the sun came up, the building was a charred shell of concrete block walls and the metal rafters that used to support the roof. But the demolition of the building created further quirks.

To make the building safe for fire investigators to determine what started the fire, the trucks ended up burying the cause in rubble.

By late afternoon Monday, fire investigators -- a half dozen from the county and the state, along with a dog trained to sniff out arson found the culprit: an electrical short.

Pasco Battalion Chief Michael Cicarrello said the building's main power line, coming in from the ground, was where the fire started.