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May 27, 2005
Blaze threatens Beatty apartment
SPECIAL TO THE PVT
RICHARD STEPHENS / PVT
Firefighters work to contain a vacant building, already engulfed in flames, while trying to save the structure next door.
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A fire broke out in the middle of the night May 6 in Beatty at the building formerly known as The Outpost, located across the highway and just southeast of the Burro Inn.
The Beatty Volunteer Fire Department received the call just after midnight. At that point one corner of the building was heavily involved.
Firemen quickly knocked down the flames. The fire destroyed an exterior stairway leading to an upstairs apartment. The residents, who have been operating a fruit stand in the building, were not home at the time.
Chief Jim Benshoof said that the fire was of a sufficiently suspicious nature to warrant calling in a state fire marshal to investigate. Some of the causes for suspicion included the hour at which the fire started in the unoccupied building, the fact that it appeared to have started under the outside stairway, and that the apartment appeared to have possibly been ransacked.
Firemen and Nye County Sheriff's Office personnel worked in shifts to secure the scene until the arrival of the fire marshal, who had to drive from Carson City.
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