CLARK COUNTY — A Clark County bowling alley was damaged by a fire Thursday morning.
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The fire was reported at Northridge Lanes on Moorefield Road around 8:17 a.m.
Neighbors, like Randy Farries, described what they saw Thursday morning.
“The whole back area is nothing but smoke. You could hardly see the bowling alley,” Farries said.
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Firefighters on the scene told News Center 7 that the fire caused significant damage to some of the lanes inside the bowling alley.
“Could have been a lot worse,” Kevin Stevens, Moorefiled Twp. Fire Chief said. “They never got up into the Bow Street trestles and stuff like that. It kind of stayed back into the electrical part of the building.”
The bowling alley was closed at the time of the fire, and no one was inside.
The bowling alley has been owner by Bo Kearny for four years. As shown on News Center 7 at 5:30, he said he got a call early Thursday morning and had to rush up from Cincinnati.
“I was surprised at the number of firefighters and fire trucks, and emergency vehicles that were there,” Kearny said.
Kearny said the bowling alley has been in the community since the ‘60s.
“It’s been an icon in the community for years,” he told News Center 7.
He also said the fire will only slow them down for a bit.
“We’ll be back. It might be a few weeks, but we’ll get everything taken care of and we’ll be back and operating,” Kearny said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office.
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