A morning fire at Hawg Wild BBQ on Grant Street forced the restaurant to temporarily close Thursday. The restaurant sustained smoke damage after employees say fire broke out in a clothes dryer.
No one injured
Katie Dowis is a server and hostess at the popular restaurant. She says she saw the smoke when she pulled into work Thursday morning. “Our dryer machine caught on fire this morning. They said they smelled something smoking this morning and as soon as they called the fire guys it had already caught flame.” Dowis says there was damage to the office and smoke damage to the restaurant. “It didn’t really ruin anything in the restaurant, we’ve just got to clean up the smoke.”
Now Habersham reached out to Clarkesville Fire Chief Jerry Palmer for comment. He’s not yet responded.
Clarkesville restaurant fires
This is the second restaurant fire in Clarkesville in less than two months, the third in the past sixteen months. The Huddle House on Washington Street sustained heavy damage when a grease fire broke out on June 17th of this year.
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On March 4, 2014, a large part of the eastern side of Clarkesville’s downtown square was destroyed when fire broke out in Sweetbread’s Restaurant on East Louise Street. The cause of that fire was ruled “undetermined.”
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