Fire takes Edam’s General Store
A fire at the only local grocery store has left the Village of Edam in shock.
Around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 14 one of the store’s former employees, Connie Pollard said she received a text message from her friend asking if she knew the store was on fire.
“I woke my husband up and he came out and had a look after that,” Pollard said. [My friend’s] husband works for the fire department and he was called out shortly after 3 a.m. to come fight the fire.”
According to Pollard, firefighters were still on the scene of the fire in 2000 block of Main Street around 10 a.m. Pollard said that this loss is a big hit to the community.