One of Victoria’s oldest pubs has burnt down overnight.
Country Authority Fire crews arrived in 16 trucks at The Port Albert Hotel, east of Wilsons Promontory, to find the building gutted by fire just before 8pm on Monday.
A CFA spokesman said it took firefighters an hour and a half to control the blaze.
Unfortunately one of Victoria’s oldest pubs, the Port Albert Hotel near Yarram, was destroyed by fire last night pic.twitter.com/RW47wFJTnE
— CFA Updates (@CFA_Updates) February 17, 2014
The pub, which was built in 1841 primarily out of wood, was significantly damaged in the fire, the spokesman said.
Resident Mike Luke told radio station 3AW that no-one was inside the pub at the time of the fire.
Mr Luke said that once the “blaze got hold of the old timbers, there was just no stopping it”.
No other buildings were damaged in the blaze.
