Everyone on the Paamul mailing list received this email this evening:
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Around 2 am this morning (Good Friday), the roof of Jack and Evelynn's palapa (formerly Frank and Lisa, next to Bart on the back row) caught fire reportedly from a sparking high wire above the roof. The fire was contained to their palapa thru the quick response and efforts of many Paamul residents using the fire extinguishers from around the park and the response of the playa fire department. The walls and trailer are still standing, as well as the upright poles and some of the roof. There was minor damage to the two adjacent palapas. Jack and Evelynn did have insurance on their palapa, but have only been owners for a couple of months. Most of their personal property was already loaded in their truck as they were planning on returning to Canada Friday morning.
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Interestingly enough, though... I was awake reading (shame on me) and I heard a loud pop, and then something closer to a boom, at the time our power went out. (Actually had the thought at that time that I hoped whatever happened didn't start a fire, because it was obviously some electrical snafu. So I wasn't really surprised to hear when someone came running past shouting about it 15-20 min later.) I'm thinking something actually blew, but the transformers were all fine today. Who knows?
Someone's also scheduled a happy hour get-together on Sunday to honor everyone here who worked so hard to minimize the damage and help clean up today. It's a nice community, mostly.
