Medical Lake maintenance shop and vehicles replaced after fire

By AL STOVER

Staff Reporter

The Medical Lake’s Maintenance Department went from having its shop burned, and vehicles either destroyed or damaged beyond repair in an April fire to having the fleet replaced, which led it to being voted the No. 5 top news story of 2016.

An overnight fire April 13-14 destroyed one vehicle and damaged several others in the maintenance shop.

In an April interview, Scott Duncan, the city’s maintenance supervisor, arrived at the shop and felt something wasn’t right. When he reached the shop door and opened it, he beheld a facility blackened, but not charred, by fire....