PERU – An early morning fire Thursday destroyed the camp of a Worthley Pond couple.
Andy and Diane Shorey, friends and neighbors of the camp’s owners, Wayne and Cheryl Sevigny, said they woke to the sound of popping and crackling and when they stepped outside to see what it was they saw the fire.
“At first I thought it was fireworks and then I heard a large bang,” Andy Shorey said. “When I looked outside all I could see were flames everywhere.”
A 911 call to Oxford County Regional Communications Center at about 1:20 a.m. dispatched firefighters from Peru and Dixfield.
But the camp was already fully involved when they arrived.
“There was nothing left to save,” said Kathy Hussey, who also owns a home on the pond. “You could see all the way through the building.”
Firefighters doused a speed boat, parked within a few feet of the camp, with water as the intense heat from the blaze had started to make the boat smolder and melt.
The blaze was visible from across the pond.
Cheryl Sevigny was distraught when she arrived on scene. The couple, who reside in Mexico, had just purchased the camp in May.
“They had just gotten permits to begin remodeling” Hussey said.
Cheryl Sevigny said she and her husband left the camp only a few hours before the blaze to go back to their other home in Mexico.
“Thankfully no one was inside when the camp went up in flames” Diane Shorey said.
Firefighters were working to extinguish the remaining debris into the early morning hours. As of about 3 a.m. the cause of the fire had not been determined.
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- An early morning fire destroyed Wayne and Cheryl Sevigny, of Mexico, camp on Worthly Pond in Peru. Firefighters from Peru and Dixfield responded but the structure was not able to be saved. Cheryl Sevigny had grown up on Worthly Pond and the couple had just purchased the camp in May.
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