Building at lumber yard is destroyed
The Vindicator (Youngstown)

Todd Garland, Warren Township fi re chief, stands in front of one of two front loaders that were ruined at Doll Lumber, 1363 state Route 534 in Braceville Township, early Monday during a fire that destroyed a storage building and all of its contents.
Staff report
BRACEVILLE
The owner of Doll Lumber is checking with his insurance carrier to see if he’s covered for an early-morning fire that destroyed a 6,000-square-foot wood-framed storage building at the back of the business at 1363 state Route 534.
Firefighters responded to 911 calls at 4 a.m. Monday for booms and a glow in the sky and arrived a short time later to find the building’s roof already down and the structure and contents engulfed in flames, said Braceville Township Fire Chief Todd Garland.
The building housed a variety of equipment used by the company at its lumber yard and out in the field, said owner Jim Doll.
The company harvests and sells hardwoods and works in other allied fields, Doll said.
The explosions might have resulted from the bursting of tires on some equipment, Doll said. There also was fuel in some of the equipment.
“It was pretty well toast by the time we got here,” Garland said, estimating the fire had been burning since about 3:30 a.m. but nobody noticed because the location is about a quarter-mile from the road and in a remote area.
“It was so far gone by the time we got here, so the point of origin is truly undeterminable,” Garland said, adding that some of the likely causes are related to the machinery or building wiring.
By 9 a.m., the walls and roof of the wooden structure were gone, with just pieces of siding pushed into the back and the charred remains of the equipment visible on the building’s cement pad.
One rubber conveyor belt still was smoldering, even though the fire had been extinguished by about 5 a.m. by the Braceville Fire Department with the help of four other area departments, which hauled water to the site.
Doll estimated the loss to be extensive. He was checking with his insurance company to determine whether he had any coverage for the loss.