REGINA –
A grain elevator situated in Rouleau, Sask. identified for its appearances in “Nook Gasoline” burned to the bottom early on Friday morning.
In response to the city of Rouleau, the fireplace started round 2 a.m. Hearth crews arrived on scene simply after 2:40 a.m. and located the complete elevator engulfed in flames.
Wayne Rumford, the fireplace chief of the Rouleau and District Hearth Division, mentioned a trigger has not but been decided.
Hearth crews from Pense, Wilcox and Rouleau had been known as in to help with the blaze.
“Mainly we had different departments come to assist us with the quantity of warmth and safety of the city and freeway, and it was in all probability about an hour to an hour and a half to get it all the way down to the place we might a minimum of assess and do extra work on it,” Rumford mentioned.
Energy was shut off for the entire city because of a downed energy line on the website of the grain elevator.
“We had been unable to work due to that, so SaskPower shut down the city till they may get every thing secure after which they introduced the city again on after,” the fireplace chief mentioned.
The grain elevator was a landmark within the fictional city of Canine River and a well-liked vacationer vacation spot for followers of the present.
The “Canine River” grain elevator is seen on this picture taken in 2016. (CTV Information)
“We nonetheless get a number of individuals right here dropping in, and it’s just a little disappointing now as a result of there’s not a lot left of Nook Gasoline,” Rouleau Mayor Grant Clarke mentioned. [The elevator] was one of many essential ones truly. So yeah it will likely be missed, there’s little question.”
Initially inbuilt 1973, the construction was the final of seven unique elevators that used to face within the city.
Rouleau Mayor Grant Clarke stands with a photograph of the seven grain elevators that used to face within the city. (Kayleen Sawatzky/CTV Information)
Rouleau Mayor Grant Clarke stands with a photograph of the seven grain elevators that used to face within the city. (Kayleen Sawatzky/CTV Information)
Final week, the city misplaced one other piece of the present when the outdated police station constructing collapsed.
“There’s nothing there now, it’s all cleaned up. So there’s not very a lot of Canine River, related to Nook Gasoline,” Clarke mentioned.
Nook Gasoline government producers Brent Butt, Virginia Thompson and David Storey mentioned they’re “deeply sorry” to listen to concerning the information of the grain elevator, in a joint-statement Friday.
“On behalf of the complete Nook Gasoline crew and group we ship our like to the city of Rouleau. We’re grateful that the majestic Canine River Grain Elevator has been captured for posterity within the Nook Gasoline sitcom, film and within the animated collection. Might it reside on, and on, and on,” the producers mentioned.
Rouleau is situated roughly 50 kilometres southwest of Regina.
With information from CTV Morning Stay Regina’s Kayleen Sawatzky
