The following are two articles from the local Guardian and Journal-Pioneer newspapers.
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A
firefighter sprays water at dawn this morning on Davis Lodge, the former
seniors home that burned near Tignish overnight.
© Eric McCarthy/Journal Pioneeer
Abandoned
seniors' home in Tignish burned Friday morning
The Guardian
Newspaper. Published on November 01,
2013
TIGNISH
— Firefighters were called to Davis Lodge, an abondoned former seniors'
facility near Tignish early this morning after the building caught fire.
An excavator is now on scene to
bring the remaining portion of the building down as a safety precaution.
Tignish Fire Chief Harley Perry says
the vacant Davis Lodge in St Felix was so badly damaged that the whole building
must be brought down.
Tignish fire department was called
to the scene around 5 a.m., and called in four neighbouring Halloween-weary
departments for assistance.
Although the building had sat idle
for about 15 years, Perry said the structure appeared sound prior to the
suspicious fire.
RCMP and assistant fire marshal
Robert Arsenault are on the scene investigating.
For Arsenault, it is his third fire
investigation of the night in western Prince County. Around midnight, the
O'Leary fire department fought a fire at an abandoned house in Milo.
Miminegash fire department was
called out to a fire in St. Edward around 2:30 a.m. Tignish firefighters were
not home long from assisting with that call when they were summoned to Davis
Lodge.
The newer, single-storey section of
the lodge was reduced to charred posts but the two-storey section was still
standing. Perry said it was so badly damaged that it was unsafe to enter and
would need to be knocked down.
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The former Davis Lodge, near Tignish, was knocked
down Friday morning, just hours after five West Prince fire departments fought
a fire that left it too unstable to salvage.
The fire has been turned over to the RCMP as an arson investigation.
The fire has been turned over to the RCMP as an arson investigation.
Arson blamed for fire that
destroys former seniors facility
Eric McCarthy
/ Published on November 01, 2013
ST. FELIX --
Fire left a former seniors home near Tignish so unstable Friday that the
Tignish Fire Department ordered it demolished. It was knocked down Friday
morning.
Tignish fire chief Harley Perry said
flames were pouring from the vacant building when fire fighters arrived on
scene shortly after 5:30 a.m. He said it might have been burning a while before
anyone noticed.
The newer, one-story section was
completely consumed by the fire. Fire fighters were able to douse the flames in
the two-story section but Perry said the fire had left it unstable and unsafe
to enter. A himack was called in to knock the building down.
Police and
fire officials believe the fire was deliberately set, one of three Halloween
night fires in West Prince.
Approximately 45 fire fighters
fought the Davis Lodge fire, coming from O’Leary, West Point, Miminegash and
Alberton to assist.
The building has sat idle for about
15 years but was still in reasonably good shape, according to the fire chief.
Real estate signs were posted on the property. “Just by looking at it,
everything was sealed up,” said Perry. “The structure looked sound.”
The Davis Lodge fire was the third
response of the night for the Tignish department. They had been to a dumpster
fire in the community and had been to St. Edward around 2:30 a.m. to assist
Miminegash with a structure fire.
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A related story about Davis Lodge appeared on CBC PEI website May 24,
2001
The owner of the Davis
Lodge senior citizens home in Tignish is accusing the government of trying to
put him out of business. His lodge is half empty, yet the government is putting
up $1-million to build a new one. "It's pure competition for the
Davis Lodge and ultimately, and the end of the day, with a brand new shiny
facility Davis Lodge will die," said Ray Brow. Brow said Tignish does
not need another senior citizens' home. "This is scandalous and a
waste of taxpayers' dollars, especially in light of the impending closure of
Sunset Lodge," he said.
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Oww..that's so sad - looking at that nice-looking lodge house set on fire.
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