An early Sunday morning fire in Venersborg destroyed a shop building and displaced a family of five, authorities said.
Fire District 3 Assistant Chief Donavon Mattern said the fire broke out at 3:15 a.m. in a 20-by-30, metal-clad multiuse shop at 22413 N.E. 242nd Ave. The building contained some of the belongings of the family, who were living in a travel trailer on the property, Mattern added.
Loss of the contents was put at $25,000, a Clark County fire marshal estimated.
“They lost everything in the shop,” Mattern said. “They had a computer in there” as well as other belongings. He said he did not think the travel trailer was damaged.
Fire District 3 responded with two engines and a water tender and Clark County Fire & Rescue also sent two engines and a water tender.
