This downtown building has been in the Lee family for generations and the cinder block building was burned out completely on Jan 18, started from a wood stove.
Community spirit and helpfulness removed the unsafe building, block by block and demolished it entirely.
By the next day after the fire, Lonnie had received more food and household goods/clothing then he could’ve imagined. This past week, more people than we can count helped remove the unsafe cinderblock building structure, and cleared the area, creating the now vacant lot. People from nearby, and far away, lent equipment - big and small track hoes and dump trucks – provided gas and diesel at no charge, donated hours of labor - from the meticulous removal of each cinder block to scooping up salvageable materials to haul away for salvage – and hundreds of dollars in donations. Every piece of scrap that could be sold for salvage was hauled away to Kamiah, with those monies used to cover cost for diesel and hydraulic fuel etc., to make the multiple drives. To list everyone who helped, from tiny to large contributions, of any kind, would take a full page, and then I’d probably still inadvertently leave someone out! This has been a great community rally, and everyone’s efforts are sincerely appreciated. 
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