Reed’s Dairy building destroyed in fire earlier this year is being demolished

A demolition unit began tearing down nan Reed’s Dairy accumulation building successful Idaho Falls Thursday morning. Watch highlights successful nan video above. | Rett Nelson, EastIdahoNews.com

IDAHO FALLS – Months aft nan Reed’s Dairy accumulation building was destroyed successful a fire, a demolition unit was connected tract Thursday greeting to statesman nan process of tearing it down.

Owner Alan Reed tells EastIdahoNews.com nan demolition is expected to return 4 aliases 5 days to complete.

Watching nan 10,000-square-foot building beryllium demolished is an affectional acquisition for him.

“There’s a batch of memories successful there,” Reed says.

But it’s nan overwhelming show of support from nan organization to him and his business complete nan past respective months that brings tears to his eyes.

“The group present successful Idaho Falls are amazing,” Reed says, choking up. “They’ve been truthful benignant to america and it’s really humbling to me, nan awesome support we’ve sewage from nan community. It’s truthful touching.”

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Despite nan tragic loss, Reed says he’s tired of looking astatine nan quiet building and will beryllium gladsome to “have nan messiness cleaned up.”

Once demolition is complete, Reed is readying to put blacktop complete nan tract and move it into a parking batch truthful customers person much space.

Reed and his squad person since rented a storage adjacent nan Flying J state position connected nan southbound broadside of municipality wherever they’re temporarily making food and crystal pick until a caller building tin beryllium built.

“We were scattered retired successful half a twelve places aft nan occurrence and truthful it’s bully to person 1 spot we tin activity retired of,” Reed explains. “We’ve sewage a institution extracurricular of Chicago that’s making nan operation for us. We haul it present and make crystal pick retired of it.”

Other companies are helping pinch nan food curds and beverage bottling process arsenic well.

The scheme is to build a caller 25,000-square-foot accumulation building successful a section connected nan northbound broadside of nan Broadway location.

He’s waiting connected last support from nan metropolis to statesman construction. He anticipates it taking astir 2 years to complete.

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Firefighters battling nan Reed’s Dairy occurrence connected Jan. 18, 2024. | Josh Johnson, EastIdahoNews.com

Though it’s been 4 months since nan building erupted successful flames, Reed still doesn’t person immoderate definite answers astir what caused it. One interrogator told him it could’ve been an electrical heater successful 1 of nan rooms.

“I’m not judge that we really know. It must’ve been thing electrical that shorted out,” he says. “At this point, we conscionable gotta move forward.”

WATCH SOME OF THE DEMOLITION IN THE VIDEO ABOVE.