Morning blaze causes $500K to Boardman home

BOARDMAN — An early morning fire today caused an estimated $500,000 damage to a home in the Sherwood Forest development here.

The home at 4370 Yakata Doro Drive was owned by Frank Fagnano and Stacey Northcutt, who plan an October wedding. They had just finished remodeling the dwelling, which they bought in November.

Fire Chief James Dorman said that two years ago, the home then vacant and owned by someone else, was deliberately set on fire. A cause has not been determined, the chief said, but the blaze started about in a sauna room in the home. Firefighters were called at 7 a.m.

Dorman said an hour later, the fire station at Shields Road and Lockwood Boulevard, the one closest to where the fire occurred, would have been closed because today’s firefighter shift didn’t have enough people working to man two stations because of vacations and a February layoff.

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