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ELYRIA TWP. — A longtime Elyria-area bar and restaurant location was completely destroyed in a fire overnight, according to the Elyria Township Fire Department.

Fire Lt. Brian Bell said the department responded to 7212 Lake Ave. a little after 1 a.m. and is still investigating.

Upon arrival the first floor of the building was completely involved in fire, according to a Elyria Township Fire Department news release. The fire quickly spread to the second floor, which housed an apartment, the release said.

The fire was declared under control at 3:43 a.m., and crews remained on scene through the morning to extinguish hot spots.

An excavator has been called to tear down the rest of the building for safety reasons.

The Lorain County Fire Investigators have been called in to determine a cause.

Bell said the building has housed a number of restaurants and bars over the years but has been vacant for the past year or so.

The location has housed a number of establishments over the years, including Carey’s Villa, Libra Capri, The Barn and Silver Shadow.

Besides Elyria Township, firefighters from Sheffield Township, Sheffield, Elyria, Avon, Sheffield Lake and Amherst responded. The American Red Cross provided a canteen for the firefighters.

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ELYRIA — Shots were fired into an Elyria home overnight, according to an police report.

Officers were called to 160 Berkley Road about 11:20 last night after the home’s resident, age 42, said she heard a series of pops. She also found what appeared to be a bullet hole near the foot of her child’s bed, the report said. The report did not specify whether the child was sleeping in the bed at the time.

Officers found a 2-inch section of drywall broken out in the bedroom and two bullet holes in the home’s exterior but could not locate any bullet fragments.

A neighbor said she also heard pops and noticed a car, which she could not identify, accelerating around the cul-de-sac.

The victim said her family has no known enemies and she hasn’t had any other problems.

CAMDEN TWP. — A 16-year-old boy from Wakeman was seriously hurt in an accident this morning in Camden Township.

The teen is now at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, where he is unconscious, but his injuries aren’t life-threatening, according to Trooper Francway from the State Highway Patrol.

Francway said the teen was driving a 1998 Ford Explorer southbound on Baird Road about 7:40 a.m. in heavy fog when he failed to see the stop sign at state Route 20. He hit the brakes, but it was too late, and he skidded into the intersection, colliding with a Ford F700 dumptruck.

The driver of the dump truck, Duane Jesse of Wellington, was initially trapped in his vehicle because it was on its side, but was not seriously hurt. He was taken to Allen hospital in Oberlin, where he was treated and released.

The intersection was shut down for about an hour and a half while crews responded, Francway said.

ELYRIA — A man LifeFlighted from the Elyria Foundry this morning has “pretty serious” but nonlife-threatening  injuries to his arm, which had become stuck in a large piece of machinery, according to Elyria Fire Capt. Joe Pronesti.

Pronesti said firefighters were called to the foundry at 7:40 this morning, but Charles Bolin, 26, had actually been trapped “for some time” before anyone heard him screaming for help. Once firefighters arrived, Bolin was free in 36 minutes, Pronesti said.

Bolin was taken in an ambulance across the street to Basil’s restaurant, where he was loaded into a LifeFlight helicopter to be flow to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. His condition was not immediately available.

Bolin had been doing some maintenance work on the machinery when it came on for some reason, Pronesti said.

Pronesti commended the firefighters who freed Bolin for working well in what he called “a very tight space.”

“The hardest part was getting guys in there,” Pronesti said. “Our extrication tools are kind of large, so they had to do some real thinking in there.”

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