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LAKEVILLE — The Lakeville Hose Company burned a defunct building at Camp Sloane Sunday morning as a training exercise.

Camp Sloane Director Paul “Bear� Bryant said the building was deemed unsafe for use two years ago.

The one-story structure had been used for storage, but even that became problematic when the two boulders it was built on continued to shift.

“It was an attractive nuisance,� said Bryant, meaning that children or passersby might be tempted to enter the site.

As firefighters trained their hoses on one blazing section, the outline of other squad members could be seen, dimly, through the windows of the main part of the building.

Bryant said hose company members had been using the building for other exercises earlier in the week.

“You could see them in there with all this smoke. It looked like they were conducting a class.�

The Lakeville Hose Company also uses a cabin at Camp Sloane to test imaging equipment.

Firefighters and equipment from the Sharon fire department were also on hand.

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