VIDEO: Museum destroyed by fire in village of Pelly
The village of Pelly has lost its history after a fire devastated the Fort Pelly-Livingstone Museum on Saturday afternoon.
All that’s left of the biggest building in Pelly is ash and a few broken brick walls. Some residents said the Fort Pelly-Livingstone Museum looked like a fortress in the town. Originally it was a school, but in the 1970s it was converted into a museum.
Clifton Abrahamson is the president of the museum board. He said he was at the museum a little over an hour before the fire started, and everything looked fine. But, around 3 p.m. some people went past and saw smoke coming from the train car next to the museum.
“So they got other people in there and they started taking stuff out of the museum so it wouldn’t be in danger,” said Abrahamson.