June 29, 2015
A fire overnight has damaged the smokehouse at the rear of Lowrie’s Meat House at Wooroolin.
Owner Des Lowrie, who only took over the former Wooroolin Butchery 12 weeks ago, came into work this morning to find a small amount of smoke coming from the building.
However, he could see red through a gap in the door … so he immediately rang the fire brigade.
“They did an awesome job,” he said.
They quickly located the seat of the fire and extinguished it.
Des believes the exhaust fan in the smokehouse may have short-circuited, but that is still to be confirmed.
There was no meat being treated in the smokehouse at the time.
There has also been no damage to the actual butcher’s shop which is located in a separate but attached building in front of the smokehouse.
The fire was concentrated in the area between the two buildings.
