A Thursday night fire that heavily damaged part of the top floor of an administrative building at the former Glen Dale Children’s Home was deliberately set, Glendale Fire Department Chief Richard Peters said Friday.
He suspects teenagers “up to no good” likely started the fire that had three departments respond to it.
“It was no accident, it was deliberately set,” he said. “There has been no power in that building since shortly after it was closed.”
The facility closed in 2009 after decades of use and was sold at auction in 2014. Glen Dale Children’s Home opened in 1915.
Peters said the fire started in the second floor in a “classroom, office type of area.”
In addition to Glendale Fire Department, Sonora and Central Hardin fire departments responded, supplying about nine trucks among them, Peters said.