Fire destroys home
Posted By Chad Ingram
Updated 7 months ago
(Pictures of the blaze courtesy of Mark Steffensen ... aftermath photos by Chad Ingram.)
A Minden Hills home was destroyed by fire last week.
Minden Hills fire chief Doug Schell said the department was called to a home on Nye Lane, five kilometres south of Minden off Hwy. 35, at approximately 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 29.
Schell said the home, belonging to Minden Hills resident Art Nye, was "fully involved" when firefighters arrived on the scene.
"The biggest thing was getting to the hotspots because of the metal roof," Schell said.
The home had been of a wooden frame, he said.
By 7 p.m. most of the flames were out, but plumes of thick smoke still rose high into the sky. Schell said the 17 firefighters who attended the blaze used pumper trucks to extract water from a nearby pond then drove them up the hilly Nye Lane to fight the fire.
Schell said firefighters were on the scene until 10 p.m. While he said it was difficult to tell, he estimated the damage to be between $120,000 and $180,000.
Because the home was destroyed, Schell said it's unlikely a cause will ever be determined.
