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Show Fire Destroys Snowflower Condos around the site and started small fires on roof tops of buildings a hundred yards away. One person said they' could feel the heat at Adolph's Restaurant located a half mile in the distance. As a precaution. Park City police officers evacuated several buildings in the Three Kings Condominiums. Approximately , thirty persons stood for over an hour in the snow with their baggage lining the road, prepared pre-pared to make a hasty exit should their condominiums also burst into flames. The firemen. jiwever did a magnificent job of containing the flames and when they left the still smouldering embers of -Snowflower around midnight, damage to nearby buildings was practically negligable. Building II of the project which was immediatly adjacent was miraculously mira-culously unscathed. "I'm so impressed with your fire department" said one woman who had evacuated her Three Kings Condo, "They did a superior job of saving the other buildings.'' Other people also had nothing but praise for the volunteer firemen. Tuesday, the project's builder Jack Davis flew in from California to meet with Harry Reed and Gary Cole, the local developers of the project to assess their position. The building was apparently insured and most likely will be rebuilt. Meanwhile, work continues on other parts of the multi phased project. I J ' : Is , . - ' ' c, - 4 ", f - i ' - fc-VV .S ; . 1 ' ..i-f"::. "f V ?rr$X i v iff 4 ' One of Park City's most devastating fires raced through Building 1 of the Snowflower Condominiums Tuesday evening, even-ing, completely leveling the four-story structure which was nearing final stages of construction. construc-tion. ( , The exact cause of the blaze, which sent flames crackling over a hundred feet in the air, is still speculative; but it is thought thai a propane heater used by construction workers may be to blame. Apparently, a number of the heaters were in use at the site, and if were not directly responsible for the fire, certain-" ly they served to spread the flames as one by one they exploded, blowing out windows and sending huge billows of blue flames into the night. Although no damage figures have been set on the 41 unit condominium project, which as v an estimated 70 percent complete, com-plete, they could reportedly run as high as $1 million. Witnesses noticed smoke pouring ou of the project very shortly after 7pm, and almost immediaiel; after, the building bursts into flames. Volumteer Fireman Tom Hurd was first to arrive on the scene after receiving the alarm at his nearby Payday condominium at approximately 7:10pm. "When I first looked out, I could' see that only a corner of the building was burning" he told the. Record, "but by the time I got my boots on it was through . the roof. It went like a son of a bitch - there was no slopping it." Other witnesses and firemen, i alike all said they were amazed at how fast the fire spread -destroying the entire building in s less than an hour. Although the structure had been completely enclosed, sheetrocking had just begun inside and the interior was mainly an empty shell filled with literally tons of dry lumber. 'lt doesn't surprise me it went up that fast," commented a construction worker who had worked on the project, "there wouldn't be anything to stop it -the inside was just all wood' All the Park City Volunteer Firemen maintained that by the lime they arrived, only "minutes after the alarm sounded, the building was too far gone to be saved. '.'It went up like a chimney," said one firefighter. Realizing the building was a total loss, firemen concentrated their immediate efforts on saving building Jwc of. the Snowflower project and the. Three Kings Condominiums located across the street from the inferno. ' ' - The heat was so intense that it : melted huge quantities of snow I i i , ', r |
