Fire damages Lake Tomahawk’s American Legion building

Firefighters and equipment from Lake Tomahawk, Newbold and Woodruff responded to the report of a fire at the Colin F. Schultz American Legion Post 318 building in Lake Tomahawk Tuesday.

There were no injuries. 

Lake Tomahawk fire chief Billy Kuckkahn said there had been “some remodeling” of the building recently. 

“They laid down vinyl planking,” he explained. “The basement, in my opinion, is going to have to be gutted. There was quite a bit of heat down there. Smoke got up into the main level and through the roof so I imagine there’s gonna be some smoke damage there.”

The building itself is intact.

“Nothing structural wrong there as far as I could tell but we won’t know for sure until a proper assessment is done,” Kuckkahn said. 

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