UPDATED 1 p.m. Jan. 12
Jim Dickie's collection of vinyl albums, representing nearly a half-century of collecting and worth an estimated $100,000, is gone, destroyed late Saturday, Jan. 9 in an …
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The contents of this garage, which included 20,000 vinyl record albums, were destroyed by fire Saturday, Jan. 9 outside of Port Townsend. East Jefferson Fire Rescue courtesy photo by Bill Beezley
The contents of this garage, which included 20,000 vinyl record albums, were destroyed by fire Saturday, Jan. 9 outside of Port Townsend. East Jefferson Fire Rescue courtesy photo by Bill Beezley
UPDATED 1 p.m. Jan. 12
Jim Dickie's collection of vinyl albums, representing nearly a half-century of collecting and worth an estimated $100,000, is gone, destroyed late Saturday, Jan. 9 in an electrical fire.
“It was everything. It was a collection he's had since the ’70s,” said Dickie's girlfriend, Anneke Van Krieken, who owns the detached garage into which the albums had been moved in December 2015 from Bellingham. She also owns the home nearby, which did not catch on fire.
No one was injured in the fire. Van Krieken said she didn't think the contents of the two-car garage were covered by insurance.
“The garage also has to be completely rebuilt,” she said.
Dickie was not up to talking Monday afternoon about the fire and the loss of a lifetime collection of folk, blues and rock ’n’ roll music.
Van Krieken said he had just moved to Port Townsend from Bellingham in early December, “just to get this all destroyed.”
East Jefferson Fire Rescue was called to the fire in the 600 block of Crutcher Road off Cape George Road outside Port Townsend at 10:35 p.m., Jan. 9. Firefighters arrived to find a 500-square-foot detached garage fully engulfed in flames.
A lack of fire hydrants in the area hampered firefighters’ ability to knock down the blaze, so water tenders from neighboring fire districts were called in to supplement the supply of water on hand, according to Bill Beezley, EJFR public information officer.
The fire was brought under control at about 11:10 p.m.
Homeowners stated that approximately 20,000 vinyl record albums worth an estimated $100,000 had been stored in the garage. The albums were uninsured, Beezley said.
The cause of the fire is under investigation but is not believed to be suspicious, Beezley said.
On Monday, Beezley said investigators have not been able to narrow down whether a heater, small fan or single light might have caused the fire, but they did believe it was electrical in nature.
Engine 91 from Naval Magazine Indian Island and units from Port Ludlow Fire & Rescue, Quilcene Fire Rescue, Jefferson County Fire District No. 5 and Brinnon Fire Department also responded.
