VIDEO: The Brown County Fire Task Force is investigating the fire that reduced an abandoned school house building in Brown County’s Town of Rockland to a pile of rubble. Crews were called to the old Lincoln School building at the intersection of Old Martin and Ryan Roads at about 2:30 Monday morning. The building dates back 1922. It was used as the Town Hall until 1999. The Lincoln School building was already engulfed when crews arrived on scene, according to Mark Decleene, assistant chief with the Greenleaf Fire Department. Crews used a backhoe to get the hot spots because “the structure’s too unsafe to go inside,” Decleene said. “Access. Being a larger building, larger structure, there’s a lot of interior walls. It’s an old school house so there’s a lot of interior walls that, a lot of basically rooms in there, compartments we can’t get at without taking it apart with a high hoe,” Decleene said. Decleene was unable to speculate on what might have caused the fire. The owner didn’t want to talk on camera but said it’s been empty for about 15 years. He also said there have been issues with kids breaking into the building in the past.