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| Photo: Pueblo Fire Museum |
On Oct. 23, 2007, flames shooting 50 feet into the sky destroyed the abandoned Pueblo Storage Warehouse.
A passerby stopped at Fire Station No.1 just after midnight to sound the alarm, which brought 10 engines and aerial ladders to the scene. The blaze was contained at about 2:50 a.m. The roof and second-story floor collapsed.
The ice house at 205 West Elizabeth Street had been condemned three years earlier but transients used it for shelter.
The Chieftain newspaper reported:
"It was not the
building’s first brush with disaster.
"Formerly
known as Mountain Ice and Coal Co. - founded in 1896 - an empty 100-gallon
water heater exploded and ruptured an ammonia pipe in February 1980.
"Lynn L.
Belcher, 81, the company’s former president of 40 years, died from injuries
sustained in the explosion.
"A police
sergeant and Pueblo Chieftain sports writer Mike Spence were hospitalized when
an ammonia cloud swept through the Midtown Shopping Center, forcing a
nine-block evacuation.
"In 1908,
the building burned and was quickly restored; no injuries were reported."
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