Fire destroys Christian youth camp in Holmes
MILLERSBURG — A Christian youth camp in Millersburg that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in June was dealt a blow this weekend when the dining hall was totally destroyed by fire, causing an estimated
Firefighters from Holmes County Fire District No. 1 were dispatched to
“When we arrived on the scene, the roof had already collapsed and we had exterior attack in order with our two engines set up and our ladder set up for a master stream off the ladder,” said
“We were on scene until around
Balder said the cause of the fire was narrowed down to an area of origin, but didn’t have an exact cause because of the severity of the fire.
Firefighters from five districts battled the fire for nearly eight hours. Approximately 100 campers were at the facility over the weekend, but no one was in the building when the fire struck. All the campers were returned home safely. The camp was scheduled for more than 200 campers this coming weekend, the final big weekend of the year. The weekend plans have been canceled.
When Gary Adams, director of operations for
“This is devastating to all of us,”
“We couldn’t even get up here because the fire departments were here,” he added about the dining hall. “I want to say thanks to them. It was a total loss.”
“We have 15 staff members who all live on the property,”
The dining hall served as the office complex.
“Everything was housed in here,”
“It’s amazing,” he continued. “We’ve been touched by thousands of Facebook feeds and Instagram feeds. People are in shock and in tears. This place has touched a lot of people. We talked about it in June at our 50th anniversary celebration, we figured at least 50,000 lives have been touched by Skyview.”
“We have a link set up on our website, skyviewranch.org with information on how to give,” he said. “We talked about what it cost to build this building 16 years ago. Between the building and contents, we figured around
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