Cape Cod Boatyard Fire

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Cape Cod Times is reporting that a boat-storage building at the Quissett Harbor Boatyard in Falmouth, Massachusetts, has been completely destroyed by a fire that began at around 2:00 p.m. today (January 4).

Video:

http://boatinglocal.com/news/quissett-harbor-boatyard-storage-building-gutted-in-blaze.html

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Additional video here:

http://falmouth.patch.com/articles/video-photos-fire-breaks-out-at-quissett-boatyard#video-8832584

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http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/01/boatyard-blaze-woods-hole-destroys-two-vessels/99CT40KM5sNP0lZgTuSDNO/index.html

A fire that tore through a storage shed in an iconic boatyard in the Cape Cod village of Woods Hole today spared some antique vessels but destroyed two boats that were stored at the facility, a representative of the family-owned business said.

“It engulfed the building very quickly” at about 2 p.m., said Weatherly Dorris, 49, who runs the Quissett Harbor Boatyard with her husband Richard, in a telephone interview.

Dorris said that no one was injured in the fire, but that two family-owned boats stored at the wrecked shed were completely destroyed. She declined to say what kind of boats they were or when they were built.

She said that about a dozen other vessels appeared to be okay, though some of their parts -- such as booms and masts -- were irreparably damaged.

Those boats are wooden Herreshoff vessels dating as far back as the 1930s, and fiberglass Doughdish reproductions that were built decades later, according to Dorris.

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I predict more of dis as recession deepens and

small bidness is pressured.

CHANGE !

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I predict more of dis as recession deepens and

small bidness is pressured.

CHANGE !