Rural firehouse burns down; arson not suspected

Photo by Lynette Mason, The Spencer Magnet

It's happened before, and it will happen again. But a firehouse burning down has too much irony for us to pass up. It happened early Tuesday morning in Mount Eden, Ky., a village in the hills of the Eden Shale Belt between Louisville and Lexington.

Lt. John Butler, the acting chief, told Lisa King of The Sentinel-News in Shelbyville that no one was injured, since the department is all-volunteer and no one was at the station, "but the blaze is devastating, he said." Butler told her. “It’s a major loss to the community. This is our fiftieth anniversary year, too. But no one was hurt, and this can all be replaced and rebuilt.” Arson is not suspected, but an investigator from Shelbyville is trying to figure out how the fire started, Butler said. (Read more)