Courtesy of Pam Stump

Smoke pours from the Virginian Markette in Troutville early Sunday. The owners said they are insured and that they intend to restart the business, building a new structure if necessary.

A Troutville market is closed indefinitely after a fire Sunday.

The Virginian Markette was engulfed when firefighters arrived about 4:30 a.m., said Scott Paderick, chief of the Troutville Volunteer Fire Department. Three hours later, with help from other agencies, firefighters brought the blaze under control, he said.

"It was real traumatic," said Pam Stump, who watched the fire with her husband, Gregg, from their truck.

The couple were in their 13th year of operating the market. They are insured and intend to restart the business if possible, Pam Stump said.

The fire ruined the building, which Pam Stump estimated is more than 100 years old. She said an insurance adjuster will decide whether to raze the structure and rebuild or undertake repairs, but the severity of damage made saving the structure look difficult, she said.

For now, the neighborhood will be without its country market and gasoline station, where some residents came in -- sometimes multiple times a day -- for coffee and a biscuit or groceries or both, Pam Stump said. The convenience store employs the owners, their son and four others.

Firefighters from Blue Ridge, Read Mountain, Fincastle and Buchanan showed up to help stop the fire. The county's ambulance squad was also present.

No one was injured, and the Botetourt County Sheriff's Office was investigating, according to Paderick.