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“There were flames coming from the basement and smoke from the first floor windows when we arrived,” said Fleischmanns Fire Chief Todd Wickham, who noted that the  the call from Country Home Security, which monitors the property, came in at 4 a.m. Wednesday.

“When we got there the fire was in the basement, spreading to the first floor. Then, because of the balloon construction, it spread out all over.

“The harder we worked, the harder it worked,” Wickham said. “We’d think we had it contained, then it spread some more. I had to pull the men back a couple times.”

Wickham said the older section of the four-story structure dates to  the Great Depression. It was almost a total loss, he said. Wickham said fire companies were able to save half the main structure.

Wickham said the cause of the fire remains inconclusive. The electricity had just been turned on, so that is a possible culprit, but Wickham said further investigation is needed.

Wickham said about 100 firefighters were on the scene from the following fire companies: Pine Hill, Phoenicia, Shandaken and Big Indian in Ulster County; and Fleischmanns, Arkville, Margaretville, Bovina, Roxbury, Stamford, Grand Gorge, Franklin, Worchester, Halcottville, Andes, Arena and Delhi from Delaware County.

Wickham said two ladder trucks from Margaretville and Stamford responded, along with five pumpers from Margaretville, Stamford, Fleischmanns, Arkville and Halcottville.

Wickham said the Margaretville Fire Department Auxiliary remained with the fire companies for the duration of the fire and Hubble Construction Co. of Margaretville responded with its excavators.

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