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I CASS CITY CHRONICLEdS’, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 38 CASCITY, MICHIGAN-THURSDAY, JANUARY 8,1981 Tv , SIXTEEN PAGES I Near Gagetown .Earrn”II fireJoss mav reach $200,000 D;image has been esti- He used a second exting- “When the fire department ning the flames, did have th6 rr..,ed at between $lOO,OOo uisher and then threw snow got here, it was gone,” smd in a fire that advantage that they blew $2OO,OOO on the flames, “but it was Seurynck said. the flames away from the alestroyed a farm storage too late.” In actuality, at that point, Seurynck house, Thick said. and workshop building and THE ONLY PIECE OF he estimated about two- . its contents on the Alvin equipment he was able to Firemen remained at the thirds of the structure was scene until a little after 6 sturynck , farm west of save was a backhoe, and in lost, but there was no possi- p.m., so were there about 2~2 Gatsetown Monday after- driving it out, singed the top bility to save the rest. hours. 1 nor )n . of his head because the over- As that department’s THE BUILDING, Contents included a com- head door was burning. Seurynck said, was divided bin e, semi-truck and trailer Seurynck also blistered tanker is in the shop for repairs, the Elkland towrt- into two 40-by-40 foot sec- and stake truck. his hands in the heat. A tions. The portion where he Tifie 40-by-80-foot wood pantleg caught on fire. He ship and Owcndale depart- building, about five years ments each brought a tank- worked on his equipment used snow to get it out was insulated and heated. 016, wbas located behind the without injury. er. The Elkland truck made one return trip. The other section, used for SuryncA home on Hurds He estimated the fire storage, was unheated. Corner €toad, south of Bay spread throughout the build- Elmwood-Gagetown As- sistant Fire Chief Dennis The building was all-wood City-Forcstville, ing in 10-15 minutes. because it was used for stor- Tuesday, the owner was His wife, Lori, arrived Thick said about 8,000 gal- lons of water were used to ’age (metal would rust) and still prepsiring a list of the home after the fire had as a result, burned much building’s contents for the started. She called the fire extinguish the blaze. insurance adjuster. more rapidly. Building posts department and immedi- Firemen concentrated were treated with creosote Includerf were the semi- ately after, because there much of their efforts on preservative, which made trLc‘~ ad trailer, stake was also a phone in the keeping an underground them highly flammable, trwk with a load of beans, burning building, which gasoline storage tank and a combine used for harvesting Seurynck noted. melted the line, the phone in large outside propane tank Had the cleaning fluid beans, two snowmobilss, the house also went dead. behind the building cool, to bem in a metal bucket, he ridirig lawn mower, push . THE ELMWOOD-GAGE- keep them from exploding. commented, he perhaps THE REMAINS of a combine can be seen amid the charred posts of the build- gasdine mower, 65 tons of town Fire Department re- Neither did. could have carried it outside ing on the A1 Seurynck farm near Gagetown that bukned to the ground Monday. fertill zer worth about ceived the call at 3:27 p.m. Strong winds, though fan- once the fire started. $18,001), 1,500 bushels of Two trucks were also lost in the blaze. (Another photo, page 13). beans, two welders, two cutting torches, numerous tools worth several thousand area snowmobilers dollars, some bicycles, four For Thumb tires and some miscellan- eous items. “There isn t anything out there a guy could pick up and use,” Seurynck com- mented Tuesday. The insur- ance, he said, wouldn’t com- Lots of snow but few legalplaces togo pletely pay the cost of replacing what he had lost. Snow, snow, and fidre counties, only the Huron Gene Wilson, was in exis- specifies they “shall be rink is ready), and therein property requires written wasn’t even left with a snow. and Huron, except when He County Road Commission tence before the state law. driven along the extreme crossing the street or for lies an illustration of the en- permission of the property concrete slab on which to For snowmobilers, winter permits snowmobiling along The ordinance limits right side of the street or forcement problem. owner, the same as for hunt- build a new twilding. Por- far has been snowmobil- access to the hearest cross so rightaf-way.As all township hours of operation to 8 roadway in the proper lane street. On a recent Saturday ing. tions of it exploded, appar- ing heaven. boards have given their a.m.-IO p.m, Sundays of traffic . ” afternoon, about a half- The only stateawned land ently because it was cold Snowmobiles are only al- SO The problem for snowmo- consent, Engineer-Manager through Thursdays and 8 Snowmobiles are not al- lowed in the village park if dozen were observed in the on which they can run, and then was suddenly bilers in the upper Thumb is Robert Tufts explained, it is a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays and lowed on Main Street be- they stay on the two roads in park and none was staying according to Department of heated by the blaze. that there are few places in only necessary to post signs Saturdays, speed to no more tween Brooker and Ale or ort the park which has on the road. The gathering Natural Resources conser- The fire begs .I aftor 3 p.m. (one of area to go snowmobiling ‘I this along the maih entrance than 15 miles per hour md ..+as tx!w:n Cx;ielci been closed until the skating skfoi bd~in iarge open vatiou officer Tim Burke, IS when 3eurynck was using a legally. roads into the county. area at the east ehd of tbe on trails with signs designa- welder to do Some work on The problem for law en- New Tuscola County Shcr- park, from where some of ting them as open to traffic, the semi-truck. Sparks from fercement officers in the iff Paul Berry commented the machines were being normally used by hunters. the welder ignited fumes upper Thumb is that snow- that he doesn’t see any driven into the woods. The problem is there aren’t from a nearby open bucket mobilers too often choose to problems in allowing snow- EVEN WHEN A POLICE many of those and most containing a cleaning fluid, run their machines in places mobiles to run alongside officer sees a snowmobiler range from 100 yards to a used for cleaning parts. where it is illegal to do so, rural roads, but until and breaking the law, Wilson quar ter-mile long a He grabbed a fire exting- such as in state game areas unless that is allowed, his said, “Enforcement is very The longest designated uisher and aimt’d it at the and on roads. ’ department will enforce the difficult. You can’t catch one bucket, but the blast from State law forbids operat- trail runs for about two law. in a car, let’s put it that way. miles in the Tuscola State the extinguisher blew the ing snow machines on roads He noted that on a recent If a snowmobiler doesn’t Game Area, west of Caro, flames onto the walls. and road shoulders. It does night, before he took office, want to stop for you, all and there is no legal way to He managed to extinguish allow them to run on road deputies issued three snow- he has to do is turn away get from it to another trail. the burning walls, but the right-of-way,off the road and mobile citations, two for from you, and it’s goodby.” plastic pail melted and the shoulder, where signs are riding on the road and one The police department Please turn to page 13. still burning liquid spread posted that state it is per- for operating an unregis- doesn’t receive many com- onto the floor, under the mitted. tered snowmobile. plaints concerning snowmo- truck where it ignited card- Whether snowmobiles will ONE EXCEPTION TO ’ biles, according to the chief, board saturated with oil and be allowed along rightaf- the above is in Cass City, and most involve the ma- Accident grease, that Seurynck had way in each county is up to where village ordinance al- chines being run in residen- been lying on while working the county road commission lows snowmobiles to run on tial areas, usually at night. underneath the vehicle. and township boards. the streets. The ordinance, He has received one com- elaimg life In the three upper Thumb according to Police Chief plaint this winter about a snowmobile in the park. It was being operated on the of Lori sledding hill Snowmobilers operating on village streets -- or any roads -- should be aware that Schuette under state law, any time Lori Lynn Schuette of there is an accident between Flint, formerly of Cass City, a car or truck and a snow- died Wednesday, Dec. 31, at mobile on a public highway, Burley Medical Center in the driver of the snow ma- Flint, from injuries sus- chine is presumed to have tained Dec. 23 in an auto- been at fault. mobile accident in Flint OUTSIDE OF CAS$ CITY, township, where can one snowmobile The accident took place THIS SNOWMOBILE is being operated legally -t in Tuscola county or the when her car crossed the upper Thumb? assuming the driver is Of legal age or has passed the centerline of Miller Road Property ov;ners can ride during heavy late afternoon certification test for those 1246 -- as long as he stays on the on their own property, of traffic and collided head+,n road in Cass City Recreation Park.

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