A thick tower of black smoke stretched into the Central Texas sky for hours Thursday, as more than a dozen firefighting stations from across Bell County gathered in Temple to battle a massive structure fire that demolished a two-block storage facility into charred walls and burnt rubble.In what Temple Deputy Fire Chief Ray Perkins called "the worst fire Temple has seen since the '60s," firefighters needed almost eight hours to extinguish the swarming flames that engulfed Atlas Storage, 2600 W. Ave. G, shortly before 1:30 p.m. No injuries at the former American Desk site were reported, and authorities said it would be days before they knew what sparked the sudden blaze.City water level dropped critically low, electricity in several street blocks went out, and residents of one Temple neighborhood were forced to evacuate their homes because of the fire, which was finally suffocated by tanks of foam brought in from Fort Hood around dusk. By nightfall, the flames had mostly disappeared and the smoke was beginning to dissipate."I would say this is the biggest fire here since downtown burned down," said Perkins, referring to April 1961 blaze that destroyed five Temple businesses. by Paul J. Weber