Fire engulfs DuBois Construction headquarters
Updated 11:10 p.m.
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Firefighters battle a massive blaze Friday night at DuBois Construction in Middlesex. Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo |
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Staff Report - Published: January 6, 2012
MIDDLESEX — The DuBois Construction office and shop on Three Mile Bridge Road in Middlesex went up in flames Friday night. The company's co-owner, Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, was at the scene and said there were trucks and heavy machinery inside the building, including the company's newest truck.
No one was at the building when the fire started in the evening.
Numerous fire companies from surrounding towns responded to the blaze and supplied tankers.
Water was being pumped from the Winooski River into waiting tankers near the Dairy Creme on lower State Street in Montpelier, then trucked to the site.
At one point an excavator belonging to DuBois was used to tear through a burning exterior wall and try to pull a large safe from the fire.
A fire official reported to dispatchers at about 10:30 p.m. that the fire was under control. But crews continued to shuttle tankers to the site for some time as the flames lingered.
Earlier in the evening, dispatchers requested fire crews from as far away as Randolph and Richmond for mutual aid at stations closer to the scene.
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