My initial reaction was, 'It can't be happening to us,' but yet, my initial reaction was that - 'I want everyone out of the building.' If everyone's out of the building, everything will be OK no matter what happens going forward,"
said store owner Nevin Martin.
The Martin's Grocery Store exterior was renovated last fall. Now, the building is a complete loss.
Damage is estimated to be in the millions of dollars.
The grocery store has been at the plaza since the late 1980s.
As for the fire, Lincoln Fire Company Public Information Officer Randy Gockley said it's going to be a 12-to-16-hour fight to finally put it out.
It's not yet clear what started the fire.
Stay with WGAL for updates.
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My initial reaction was, 'It can't be happening to us,' but yet, my initial reaction was that - 'I want everyone out of the building.' If everyone's out of the building, everything will be OK no matter what happens going forward,"
said store owner Nevin Martin.
The Martin's Grocery Store exterior was renovated last fall. Now, the building is a complete loss.
Damage is estimated to be in the millions of dollars.
The grocery store has been at the plaza since the late 1980s.
As for the fire, Lincoln Fire Company Public Information Officer Randy Gockley said it's going to be a 12-to-16-hour fight to finally put it out.
It's not yet clear what started the fire.
Stay with WGAL for updates.
Word on the street said it started in the bakery.
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I am sorry to see this. I do hope no one has been injured.
More than 80 fire and emergency units from four counties have responded to a fire at Martin's Country Market at the Lincoln strip mall off Route 322 in Ephrata Township.
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steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:11 am Word on the street said it started in the bakery.
if they don’t already, maybe putting firewalls around bakery departments, and other higher-incident areas would prevent massive fires?
It wasn't the most modern building to begin with. Back when I worked there in the early to mid-90's, half that building was Martin's and the other half was Galen's of Ephrata.
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My initial reaction was, 'It can't be happening to us,' but yet, my initial reaction was that - 'I want everyone out of the building.' If everyone's out of the building, everything will be OK no matter what happens going forward,"
said store owner Nevin Martin.
The Martin's Grocery Store exterior was renovated last fall. Now, the building is a complete loss.
Damage is estimated to be in the millions of dollars.
The grocery store has been at the plaza since the late 1980s.
As for the fire, Lincoln Fire Company Public Information Officer Randy Gockley said it's going to be a 12-to-16-hour fight to finally put it out.
It's not yet clear what started the fire.
Stay with WGAL for updates.
Word on the street said it started in the bakery.
I heard a bakery employee who came in early to work found the fire in a janitorial closet or something by the bakery. Kind of hard to believe an automated fire alarm system wouldn't have detected it first. The system in my business goes off if you so much as burn a piece of toast.
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I heard a bakery employee who came in early to work found the fire in a janitorial closet or something by the bakery. Kind of hard to believe an automated fire alarm system wouldn't have detected it first. The system in my business goes off if you so much as burn a piece of toast.
One of the Martin's did say in an interview that the alarm triggered a minute after the employee called 911.
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From what I've heard most of the fire is out, I saw a bunch of pics from inside the building and it's pretty destroyed.
My brother says that the market is a total loss, the appliance store suffered a bunch of smoke damage but not a lot of fire so that side fared a lot better.
steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:11 am Word on the street said it started in the bakery.
if they don’t already, maybe putting firewalls around bakery departments, and other higher-incident areas would prevent massive fires?
Commercial ovens, rotisseries, stoves, grills, already do have pretty stringent fire codes for both equipment and installation. And also more mundane things like storage. That is part of the job of fire departments, to conduct fire code inspections.
But of course it is always possible that an older business may not have equipment or installations that meet current codes. They are sometimes not retroactive.
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steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:11 am Word on the street said it started in the bakery.
if they don’t already, maybe putting firewalls around bakery departments, and other higher-incident areas would prevent massive fires?
Commercial ovens, rotisseries, stoves, grills, already do have pretty stringent fire codes for both equipment and installation. And also more mundane things like storage. That is part of the job of fire departments, to conduct fire code inspections.
But of course it is always possible that an older business may not have equipment or installations that meet current codes. They are sometimes not retroactive.
No sprinkler system in this case, the building was built in the 80s prior to that requirement.
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Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily. -Heb. 13:3
