Thursday Fire Destroys Hamburg Township RestaurantThursday Fire Destroys Hamburg Township Restaurant

5/16/14 - The cause of yesterday’s fire that destroyed a Hamburg Township restaurant remains under investigation. Roadies Roadhouse and Saloon on M-36 was destroyed in the fire, which Hamburg Township Fire Chief Mark Hogrebe says was pretty well established once they arrived on the scene, so the decision was made to keep the fight defensive and not send firefighters into the structure. He says a passerby has indicated that nothing was amiss at the business at 5:15 this morning, so the fire must have started sometime after that and when they received the call around 8:15am. Hogrebe says there were no injuries related to the fire and that while a cause remains under investigation, it does not appear to be suspicious in nature. In all, five departments battled the blaze, using up to 250,000 gallons of water to get it under control. M-36 had to be closed for nearly four hours and only reopened to traffic shortly after noon on Thursday. (JK)