Carbon County officials said that its drug and alcohol services in Monroe County were affected by a recent fire that tore through a shopping center, leveling the building.

On Thursday, the board said that the Carbon-Monroe-Pike Drug and Alcohol Commission had office space in the Bartonsville shopping center.

“We’re scrambling to find a space,” Commissioners’ Chairman Wayne Nothstein said, noting that the space should be between 2,000 and 3,000 square feet. “They’re operating right now remotely, but everything they had there was lost like the other places, businesses.”

He said the commission hopes to fine a new place to move the drug and alcohol program for Monroe County into to provide the outpatient services that are needed.

According to the CMPDA website, in Monroe the commission utilized Pyramid Healthcare in the shopping center for outpatient services. It was one of 18 businesses destroyed in the Sunday morning fire, including Terrery Dental, a bridal shop and several restaurants.

The call came in June 25 around 7:30 a.m. about a fire in the back of the Trap Door Escape Room at the Promenade at Fountain Court shopping center, but after crews arrived, the fire had already spread.

Fire crews were on scene throughout the day. Route 611 was closed the entire day.

Nothstein said that he heard that the shopping center would be rebuilt.

“It affects us all, even out of that area,” he said.