Only the skeleton remains of a fabric-covered workshop at Svendsen Marine after a fire on May 3. The Quonset hut caught fire shortly after 3 a.m. No one was hurt, Fire Chief Tim Buness said, but the hut was totaled.
A workshop at a Wrangell boat-building company on Case Avenue caught fire and was destroyed in the early morning hours of May 3.
A firefighter was hurt in the response to Svendsen Marine at 3:18 a.m. after falling but is OK, Fire Chief Tim Buness said May 3. The firefighter was taken to the hospital and released.
An occupant inside the Quonset hut workspace - a half-moon, fabric-covered "tinker shop" - was also unharmed, he said.
It took 30 minutes for 18 firefighters to put out the blaze, including mop-up of hotspots, which originated from a woodstove inside the hut, Buness said.
Buness said there were multiple propane cylinders inside. "It's not a living space," he said.
The fire totaled the Quonset hut, which contained "a lot of equipment," Buness said.
Because it was a fabric-covered hoop structure, he said most of the fabric had already burned off by the time firefighters arrived.
"They had aluminum-working, woodworking (equipment), a storage for equipment they may have used on the floats, things like that," he said.
The main shop upland from the hut was not affected.
Owner Dave Svendsen on May 4 declined to estimate a cost to the loss of equipment and said he was waiting for an insurance adjuster to come in from out of town and make an assessment, which he said could take a couple of days.
"It doesn't affect the business," Svendsen said.
Svendsen said he has five employees.
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