An investigation is continuing into a fire at an abandoned farmstead. The Drumheller Fire Department responded early Friday morning, October 2, at about 12:45 to a rural property north of the Little Church. The old farmhouse was completely engulfed. The farmstead was built by James Russell, who originally homesteaded in the Nacmine area about a year before the arrival of Thomas Greentree and Samuel Drumheller. Shortly after Alberta became a province, the Russells moved into the home north of the Little Church. Fire Chief Bruce wades tells the Mail, the fire is being investigated as an arson.
