By Jyll Phillips
Lincoln Sentinel Republican – September 12, 2013
Submitted by Newz Group Clipping Service – September 26, 2013
A fire at 701 S 5th Street in the early morning hours of September 10 kept the Lincoln City Fire Department busy for about five hours, and destroyed the home of Lincoln’s Bill and Joan Delmer.
Abby Liggett, 705 S 5th, woke up around 2 a.m., to a power outage. Finding no reason for the outage, Liggett contacted the Sheriff’s office to investigate, and possibly contact the city.
“Deputy Craig Shearer came to my house and checked the area. When I stepped out on my front porch, I looked at the house next door and saw smoke, then flames,” Liggett said. “The deputy, my boyfriend, and I started pounding on their doors to wake them up and get them out of there.”
The fire call went out about 2:15 a.m.
“It’s a good thing the Delmers got out of there when they did,” said Lincoln City Fire Chief Terry Stertz. “It could have been so much worse.”
Stertz said, while the fire is still under investigation, he is pretty certain it started at the electric meter, where power enters the home.
While some items may be salvageable, the fire took many of the family’s most important keepsakes.
“The house is not liveable,” Stertz said.
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