Blaze damages county courthouse
An early morning fire gutted a small courthouse in the far western part of the state, a county official said.
No one was inside the Carlisle County Courthouse in Bardwell when the blaze started.
The building was all but destroyed, with only the outer brick walls still standing, said John Roberts, the county’s judge-executive. The structure was built in the early 1980s after the previous courthouse was burned by an arsonist.
“I would have thought it would have held up better than it did,” Roberts said. “But once it caught fire, it raced through.”
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