Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
The Thermopolis Fire Department battle the blaze that destroyed the building at 530 Arapahoe Monday night.
THERMOPOLIS - A popular Mexican restaurant in Thermopolis was destroyed from a fire on Monday night, Dec. 7.
According to Thermopolis Volunteer Firefighter Forrest Coleman-Weisz, the volunteer fire department was called to a structure fire in the 500 block of Arapahoe at 7:50 p.m. Monday. He said the department responded with five trucks and approximately 22 personnel. Suppression efforts were completed around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Coleman-Weisz said the building at 530 Arapahoe appears to be a total loss. No injuries were reported.
Officials from the State Fire Marshal's Office were on scene Tuesday to investigate the fire. Coleman-Weisz said most structure fires are investigated but they cannot always determine where a fire started.
He said no other structures around the restaurant were damaged from the fire. "We were able to contain the fire to the structure itself," Coleman-Weisz said.
