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Hotel didn't have a chance in fire

The Associated Press

Quilcene, Jefferson County--A fire that destroyed the historic Quilcene Hotel appears to have started in the lint trap of a dryer on the first floor, investigators said Tuesday.

It took less than an hour Monday for the fire to raze the 89-year-old, two-story hotel--largely because its thin, wooden walls had no insulation and acted as perfect kindling, Quilcene Fire Chief Bob Wilson told the Peninsula Daily News.

No one was injured.

The Quilcene Hotel was built in 1917 as an inn for loggers and hunters.