20 fire departments were called to State Highway 23 as a fire tore through Holiday Lanes bowling alley in the town of Oneonta early Friday morning.
Fire in oneonta completely destroyed the holiday lanes family recreation center.
Newschannel 2's kirk tupaj tells us how it became one of oneonta's biggest fires in decades.
Shortly after 1 o'clock friday morning the oneonta fire department responded to the holiday lanes family recreation center for a structure fire.
This video sent in from a viewer shows the building engulfed in smoke.
It didn't take long before it became one of the biggest fires in oneonta since the early 90's.
Oneonta interim fire chief mike mancini said 20 fire companies in all responded to the fire.
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None sot: chief mike mancini, oneonta fire department there's no municipal water supply over there, so with a building that size and a commercial building, we immediately went to a defensive aerial operation, so we were going to need a lot of tankers to supply water for the multiple aerial ladders.
Bystanders say the fire appeared to be under control within a couple of hours, but oneonta's fire chief says getting the fire under control required a good deal of coordination.
Sot: chief mike mancini, oneonta fire department the difficult part is organizing everyone, and we were utilizing 2 different water supply sites.
One from our south side dam, and one a little further up the road about 2 mile that way we could have tankers coming in from 2 directions.
The great part was it was a giant parking lot in front of it so we could utilize every inch of that space that we had to.
State fire investigators are now working on a cause of the fire, and are using a drone to aid in the investigation.
Sot: kirk tupaj i did speak briefly with the owner of holiday lanes, who's owned the building for the last 10 or 12 years.
He says he has done a number of upgrades over the years and has an insurance adjuster on site, but it's just too early to tell whether or not he will rebuild.
In oneonta, i'm kirk tupaj reporting for newschannel 2.> a house is destroyed by fire in annsville early this morning.
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