Fire destroys Moosehorn’s hotel
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A popular meeting place in Moosehorn burned to the ground early Tuesday.
There was nothing left of the Moosehorn Motor Hotel after a fire ripped through the building as the town slept. The hotel, which housed a bar and restaurant on top of the handful of rooms available for rent, had been a part of the Interlake community for about 40 years, residents say.
“It’s a devastating loss,” Moosehorn Fire Chief Keegan Russell said Tuesday. “It was a popular place for everyone after baseball and the last couple years we would start our snowmobile derbies from there.
“People would go there after curling — you name it. Like any small town: the hotel is an important part of it.” Fire crews from Ashern and Gypsumville assisted the Moosehorn department.
Russell didn’t have a final determination on the cause of the fire, but said he believed it was electrical and started at about 1:15 a.m. in a small storage room next to the lounge. The fire had consumed the bar and restaurant when fire crews arrived and despite attempts to save the hotel part of the building, crews couldn’t contain the blaze.
“There were flames coming out of the roof and out of the windows when we arrived,” Russell said. “Once it got into the attic and into the crawl space, we couldn’t get at it. It ended up burning from the bottom up, and then right to the ground.
“It’s hard to get a sense of where it started, because it is so burned out completely.”
There were no injuries in the fire. The owner of the hotel could not be reached for comment.
Russell said the bar was closed at the time of the fire, as the cold weather and the fact it was early in the week made for a slow night.
There was no one staying at the hotel at the time of the fire.
Moosehorn is about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, up Highway 6 along the eastern side of Lake Manitoba in the RM of Grahamdale.
— staff