Local businesses stepping up to help pizza shop destroyed by fire [Video]

A popular pizza restaurant that has recently seen national social media attention is closed after fire ripped through the pizzeria early Sunday morning.

“Devastated. It’s just like…What?!” said Paula Johns, owner of Ianni’s Pizzeria. “We thought it was just a small fire at the oven, in the oven area. When we came in, it was like…’uhhh..this was like a total gut job.’”

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Crews from several departments worked to fight the fire at the pizza shop — which has been in business in Delmont since 2011.

It’s still unclear what started the fire.

In the last few weeks, the Johns family said business has been booming since Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports did a pizza review on his social media.

“That was really, really a wonderful thing for us, and then this,” Johns said.

The Johns are heartbroken for their employees.

They’re working to get them shifts at their Vandergrift and New Derry locations.

Some local businesses are stepping …