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'WORST SINCE THANKSGIVING HOME'

Investigators Probe

Gutted-Motel Scene

Cooperstown Firefighters Frank Liberati and Scott Gage scan for "hot spots" from the top of the aerial truck, where Brian Clancy, lower left, is at the controls. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Cooperstown Firefighters Frank Liberati and Scott Gage scan for "hot spots" from the top of the aerial truck, where Brian Clancy, lower left, is at the controls. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

No Word Yet If Blaze Is Suspicious

By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO.com

The EMS squad delivers coffee from Stagecoach to Glen Falk, right, the department's vice president, and Assistant Chief Mike Molloy.
EMT Monica Carrascoso this morning delivers coffee from Stagecoach to Glen Falk, right, the department's vice president, and Assistant Chief Mike Molloy.

COOPERSTOWN – Investigators are on site at the vacant Cooperstown Motel at this hour, seeking to understand what cause a raging blaze to erupt at 2:45 a.m. today.

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"Hot spots" are still being doused, said village Fire Chief Jim Tallman, who had been at the scene throughout the night into this morning.

He called the blaze the worst local conflagration since the Thanksgiving Home fire – the benchmark of Cooperstown fires – burned to the ground in 2002.

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