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From the TH-Record 3/21/06

Daytop Village building ruined
Sparks from equipment started blaze

By Heather Yakin
Times Herald-Record
hyakin@th-record.com
Gallery: Fire at Daytop Village

Swan Lake - A fire sparked by soldering torches destroyed a building yesterday at the Daytop Village drug rehabilitation campus on Route 55.

The 120-foot-long, one-story building was generally used to house international visitors who come to Daytop to learn how to run rehab programs. Daytop carpentry and construction workers were renovating the building.

Carpenter Bill Bakalis said all looked fine at the building when he drove past about 12:20 p.m. on his way to the Parksville campus. He made a point to check the building, because he knew other workers were inside and he expected to see them in Parksville for lunch.

Twenty minutes later, as the workers sat down to eat, they heard the news: The building was in flames.

Swan Lake fire Chief Don Sherwood explained what happened.

"They were working inside on re-soldering pipes, moving baseboard heaters" in the center section of the building, Sherwood said. "That's where it started. They had some sparks. They thought that they put them out. They went to lunch."

About 70 firefighters from Swan Lake, White Sulphur Springs, Kauneonga Lake and Liberty responded to the 12:43 p.m. call to 911. Heavy yellow-black smoke, made acrid when the building's vinyl siding melted and burned, hung over Route 55 as firefighters poured water onto the building.

About a third of the building was still standing by the time the fire was under control. That, Bakalis said, was the section that they'd renovated first.

"And we just finished it," he said. "It came out nice, too."


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