News: Colby – Fire Destroys Business (Dec 1975)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Reinhart, Kralcik

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 24 Dec 1975

A fire early Sunday morning gutted Rich’s Sports and Service in Colby. Three fire trucks and 24 men from the Colby Volunteer Fire Department fought the fire for two and a half hours.

According to Fire Chief, Galen Reinhart, a passing motorist turned in the alarm at 3:20 a.m. Apparently the fire started in the ceiling above the furnace.

Reinhart said the workshop portion and a storage room were completed gutted out. All inventory was destroyed , including two snowmobiles, and electric riding mower and engine parts.

Richard Kralcik, Route 2, Athens, leased the building from the Marshfield Oil Company in April of this year.