Bloomfield Township firefighters still working to put out hot spots after Oakland Hills Country Club fire

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Fire crews were back at the Oakland Hills Country Club putting water on hot spots after a massive fire ripped through the clubhouse on Thursday.

The mutual aid didn’t leave until after 12 p.m. Friday but as of 5 p.m. Friday (Feb. 18) the fire is still not completely out. Only the Bloomfield Township Fire Department remains.

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The rubble that remains of the clubhouse is a heartbreaker for those who revere the old building as something much more than a golf clubhouse.

Icicles hang from the broken-out windows in the 15-degree temperatures and yet water cascaded down the steps of the century-old golf sanctuary.

“We’ll stop flowing water for a little bit and when it flares up in the spots we can start hitting those spots that are hard to see sometimes. You just have to let them flare up a little bit,” Bloomfield Township battalion fire chief Kevin Cardinale said

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