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Show Fire drill exposes log cabin walk The walls of a two room log caDin were exposed Monday when Pleasant Grove Fire Fighters burned the old Matthews home at 800 W. State Road as a fire drill Fire Chief Calvin Mills said that if they would have had any idea that the cabin walls were behind the wallboard they would have removed them before the fire for reconstruction recon-struction elsewhere. The two west rooms in the home were originally the cabin and the other rooms had been built onto it to the east and south. The firemen set the building on fire at about 5 p.m. Within six minutes the home was totally involved, in-volved, showing the importance of getting people out of a building as quickly as possible when there is a fire, Chief Mills stated. The empty home had to be removed to make room foi the corporate offices of West con which will be built on the property. When the flames died down, the liremen and onlookers could see the old cabin walls, still stuck together with mortar, standing in place. No one had lived in the home for some time. Transients had used it lor shelter. Chief Mills said. Fortunately, the tall cottonwood ' tree next to the old home was only scorched a little during the fire Chief Mills said that the fire department used water pressure Irom the deluge nozzle, using water pumped from a ditch through the LaFrance engine to the new Pierce engine, to finish knocking down someol the walls. The department timed the burning and watched the spread of the fire as part of their ongoing training Droeram " |