Nearly all of Harris County's voting machines were destroyed this morning when a huge fire burned the Houston warehouse where the machines were stored.

The three-alarm fire at the county building at 606 Canino Road, near the Hardy Toll Road and Melrose Park north of downtown, destroyed thousands of voting machines with a little more two months remaining before the Nov. 2 election. The Houston Chronicle has video from the fire scene.

Harris County is the nation's third most populous county, and about 10,000 pieces of election-related equipment were warehoused in the building that burned, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett's office said in a press statement this afternoon. The cause is still under investigation, the statement said.

The Harris County Commissioners Court has called a special meeting for 2 p.m. Monday to make arrangements to buy and lease replacement machines for the November election.

More coverage:

• The Associated Press
  
• KPRC-Local 2
  
• KHOU-Channel 11
  
• Fox Houston