Fire damages Sheesh restaurant on North Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor

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Ann Arbor firefighters work to put out a fire from the roof of 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_49_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor firefighters work to put out at 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_48_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor firefighters unload trucks as they arrive at the scene of a fire at 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_46_fullsize.jpg
A sign for Sheesh is displayed along Main St. as Ann Arbor firefighters work to put out a fire that started in the restaurant on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_53_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor and Pittsfield firefighters bust open doors to an adjoing building next to 207 North Main St. on Monday. A fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant and spread from there. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_51_fullsize.jpg
A Pittsfield firefighters preapres to look through a window above Sheesh restaurant located at 207 North Main St. on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_52_fullsize.jpg
Huron Valley Ambulance EMT's check on a man with bandaged leg outside of a fire at Sheesh, 207 North Main St. on Monday. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_47_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor firefighters work on the roof to put out a fire at 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh resturaunt. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_50_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor firefighters walk in the front enterance at Sheesh, located at 207 North Main St., on Monday. A fire started in the kitchen and spread to through the venting system. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_57_fullsize.jpg
Ann Arbor police officers work outside of a fire at 207 North Main St. on Monday. A fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_56_fullsize.jpg
Glass flies out of a second-story window as firefighters work to put out a fire at 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh restaurant. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_55_fullsize.jpg
People gather on the corner of N. Main and Ann Streets as firefighters work to put out at 207 North Main St. on Monday. The fire started in the kitchen of Sheesh resturaunt. Melanie Maxwell I AnnArbor.com /calendar/photologue/photos/01 Sheesh Fire/cache/082211_NEWS_Sheesh Fire_MRM_54_fullsize.jpg

An estimated 25 people have been displaced from their apartments after a fire broke out this morning at Sheesh Mediterranean Cuisine restaurant in downtown Ann Arbor and spread to neighboring businesses.

The grill fire started about 11:23 a.m. at the restaurant at 207 N. Main St. and was under control in roughly two hours.

A cook at the restaurant was taken by ambulance to a local hospital after he injured his knee running from the fire, Ann Arbor Assistant Fire Chief Ed Dziubinski said.

The blaze caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, Ann Arbor Battalion Chief Robert Vogel said. At least 20 firefighters from Ann Arbor, Pittsfield Township and Ypsilanti fire departments responded.

Adjoining businesses Edible Arrangements at 205 N. Main St. and Mythlogic Computers, 209 N. Main St., were also affected.

Firefighters said they rescued a cat from an apartment and gave it oxygen.

North Main Street was closed between Ann and Miller streets.

Eric Schreffler, 30, who co-owns Mythlogic Computers, said he left the business when he heard a fire alarm next door. "There was smoke coming into our building for a little while, and they asked us to leave," he said.

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