Fire Damages Aberdeen Shelter
"Everybody's out and all right," said Gary Rowell, the mission's executive director, as firefighters mopped up. "The smoke detector worked the way it was supposed to, and the Fire Department was summoned through the monitoring system."
Rowell said he did not believe the fire would prevent the shelter from serving meals or providing shelter.
The two-alarm fire started at 4:55 a.m. on the inside of a back wall in the nearly century-old building at 405 E. Heron St.
"Most of the destruction was limited to their furnace room area," Assistant Fire Chief Doug Craig told The Daily World. "As we went through, we ruled every possible cause out with the exception of an electrical problem."
The 5,700-square-foot building sustained mainly smoke damage. Rowell could not immediately provide a loss estimate.