Radville, Sask. –
A long standing fixture in Radville, Sask. was destroyed by a fire in the early hours of Monday morning.
The Radville-Laurier Fire Department responded to a large fire at the Long Creek Saloon and the neighbouring Chinese restaurant just after 12:20 a.m.
“We were a fairly quick response, usually down here within a couple three minutes or whatever kind of thing. So it was a shock to hear or see when we came down,” Darryl Ferguson, deputy fire chief for the Radville-Laurier Fire Department said.
Radville Mayor Rene Bourassa woke up to a phone call from his daughter alerting him of the blaze.
“She said, ‘Dad, you better get down there at the hotel is on fire…and it’s big,’” he recalled.
The scene certainly fit that description. The 111 year-old building was situated in the centre of town and there was concern of the blaze spreading to nearby businesses.