Devastating fires in lakefront development

Fire devastated a home under construction last night in the Cliffs development near Salem.  Fire Chief Kevin Wilbanks says there’s no indication where in the house the fire started and the cause is under investigation.  Fire fighting efforts were complicated by flying embers that damaged a pair of neighboring homes.  Rural Fire Control reported the fire scene as the vicinity of Knollwood Drive and Majesty Court.  That’s part of a development where home values range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to upward of a million or more.