By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
This news story was updated at 10:26 a.m.
A blaze that gutted a small vacation cabin at Mayfield Lake earlier this month is “very suspicious”, according to the fire investigator.
Fire broke out the evening of Nov. 12, destroying the 600-square-foot unoccupied structure on the 100 block of Tanglewood Drive.
The owner, who resides nearby, was out of town when it happened; no injuries were reported.
Fire investigator Ted McCarty said he is working with the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and the homeowner’s insurance company and they are still interviewing people so he couldn’t say too much.
However, among the reasons for suspicion, he said, were no other other sources of ignition in the room of origin, nothing electrical was plugged in, nothing was left turned on and nobody had been there.
“There’s just no reason why a fire would start in the bedroom on the floor,” McCarty said this morning.
He estimated the loss at about $75,000. The owner had remodeled after a a big freeze broke water pipes and flooded the cabin about two years earlier, he said.
It was originally a hunting cabin and used mainly for friends and family, according to McCarty.
The cabin had been for sale for some time, according to McCarty.
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