FIRE RIPS THROUGH BUILDING
DESTROYS POST OFFICE & RESTAURANT

Kim Summers said she went to work Tuesday morning at Boccardi’s, just like she has done for the last 4 months. She began preparing the restaurant for the day’s business around 9:30. “I remember throwing a pizza in the oven and smelling a real strong odor of smoke. I began looking around the restaurant to see if I could find the source – then a woman came in telling me that the Post Office next door was on fire.”

Fraizer then ran into the restaurant to have them call the Fire Department but said they were already on the phone with 9-1-1 by that time.
When Firefighters from Florence Township arrived fire was coming out through the roof of the 80-year-old building. One by one Florence began requesting Mutual Aid from surrounding communities. Vermilion and Amherst Fire Department’s both sent manpower and aerial trucks to assist in battling the blaze.

The Birmingham Postmaster, Trudy Wright, said that she had left the building for lunch and a trip to the Library just 15 minutes before the fire was discovered. Wright said that although there was a small space heater in a back room of the Post Office, it had been unplugged before Tuesday morning.
A house located next door received heat damage, melting the siding.
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1 Comments:
It was a very sad day tuesday in birmingham. The post office and resturant have always been there since i was a little girl growing up in birmingham, and it made me so sad to stand on the other side of the rode and watch history burn. My mom was the postmaster there for 35 years and i remember well being in that post office alot. But I want to give props to the FTFD and all the other fire departments for such a great job, the house next door could have caught on fire very easily, but it only had minimal damage. Good Job to all of you!!
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