It’s been almost ten years since a devastating fire tore through the heart of the historic town of Idaho City on June 5, 2015. Today, the property is still empty, and the investigation into what caused the fire is still open.
Nancy Holbert may have been the first to see the fire from across Highway 21, where she and her husband owned the Sinclair gas station. “I was doing books upstairs because we closed at 11 p.m.,” Holbert said. “So, it was about 2 a.m. when I saw smoke, and I looked outside and woke my husband up. I thought something was on fire by our gas pumps, a wooden fence, so he looked out and said ‘Hand me the phone’.”
Nancy’s husband called dispatch, and that’s when the Idaho City Police Chief, and now Boise County Sheriff, Scott Turner, got the call…