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Big wheel keeps on
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Firefighters from around the county battled a blaze that gutted the old Paddle Wheel Motel at Clermont Harbor Thursday morning. Emergency teams were called back out Friday when the fire re-kindled. (Echo staff photo by Ellis C. Cuevas) Top: The old Clermont Harbor Inn, which formerly occupied the Paddle Wheel’s site. The inn was plagued by disasters and burned to the ground in 1946. (Photo courtesy Hancock County Historical Society)
Paddle Wheel destroyed in fire
BY GEOFF BELCHER
An early morning blaze nearly consumed the old Paddle Wheel Motel Thursday, then drew firefighters back the next day when it
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“They couldn’t put it out,” Warren Boney, assistant manager and self-described life-long resident of the Paddle Wheel said Friday.^They^ pumped a balfjmil-
we got five inches of rain...and then it flared up again last night a couple of times.”
Several area agencies worked to