An early morning fire Saturday did between $5 million and $9 million worth of damage to a historic island fort property being renovated as a hotel, reports the Bangor Daily News.
According to an announcement Saturday morning by Deputy Portland City Manager Sheila Hill-Christian, the Portland Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 18 McKinley Court on Great Diamond Island at approximately 4:30 a.m.
The fire was reported by the Casco Bay Bridge tender who reported seeing a glow from the island, she said after an 11 a.m. press conference at Portland City Hall.
The Inn at Diamond Cove, a project under construction, was found ablaze, Hill-Christian stated.
“The Inn at Diamond Cove is being developed in a former U.S. Army Barracks on the Fort McKinley site on Great Diamond Island,” she wrote in her morning announcement. “It is a reuse of the last, and largest, building on the complex into a full-service hotel with a variety of room types. This site is on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Firefighters and police officers from Portland and Long Island joined island volunteers at the scene. Fire personnel were still at the scene as of 12:30 p.m. Saturday, although Hill-Christian said the blaze was under control and no injuries were reported. She described the damage as being worth between $5 million and $9 million to the historic property in a press release issued about 12:30 p.m..
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