A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOLLOWING A FIRE late Tuesday night at a private museum in Wales. The fire at the Cae Dai 50′s Museum was transmitted shortly after 11 pm Tuesday night and on arrival the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service found the museum building well-involved.
BBC News
The museum contained a large collection of 1950′s artifacts including an entire village shop, a recreation of a home kitchen and a large collection of automobiles from the period. BBC News reports this morning:
Firefighters from Denbigh, St Asaph, Rhyl and Ruthin worked through the night to put out the fire, which they finished damping down just before 0530 BST.
County safety officer Alun Edwards said that when crews arrived to tackle the blaze they did not realise that the vehicles inside the building were of such high quality. “The main problem we had was that the building was in danger of collapse,” he said.
An FD spokesman said that it is believed that all of the autos were destroyed. One of the more interesting vehicles in the collection is the truck that was used to carry off the money at the major heist in 1963 known as the Great Train Robbery.
Earlier today a 46-yr.-old man was arrested in connection with the suspicious fire. So far, no further information has been released about the arrest.
The Leader has MORE.
The Cae Dai 50′s Museum WEBSITE.
North Wales Fire and Rescue Service WEBSITE.
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