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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Old Forge, NY ,

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RPM Snowmobile Rentals was located on Route 28 just before the train station in Thendara.

M. Lisa Monroe - RPM Snowmobile Rentals was located on Route 28 just before the train station in Thendara. Firefighters are shown hosing down the frame of the structure.

The backhoe was used to push the building down so that firefighters could make sure the fire was out.

Photo submitted - The garage was fully involved when firefighters arrived on the scene.

Business is leveled by fire

RPM Snowmobile Rentals, located at 2508 State Route 28 in Thendara, burned down in a fire early Saturday, Jan. 28.

Old Forge Fire Chief Charlie Bogardus said that the fire began around 8 a.m. in the garage of the structure.

Mike and Windy Kelly, owners of the business, were inside the building when the fire broke out. They called 911.

When volunteer firefighters from Old Forge, Inlet, Big Moose, and Otter Lake responded they found the garage fully engulfed. Bogardus said that there were around 12 snowmobiles inside the garage.

The cause of the fire is unknown. Since the building had a tin roof that didn’t allow for proper ventilating, the fire department called Mike Hunkins Excavating to push the building down so that the fire could be extinguished.

No one was injured during the fire.

The business opened in December of 2010.

—M. Lisa Monroe