ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) — 25 years ago, Monday morning, the Logan Valley Mall went up in flames.
The smoke plume could be seen for miles around.
Dozens of fire departments from across the region fought that inferno, which was spotted by an overnight maintenance worker in the G.C. Murphy store.
More than half of the stores inside the Logan Valley Mall were damaged or destroyed, putting hundreds of employees out of work just before Christmas.
The burned-out section of the mall, then owned by Johnstown-based Crown American, would be rebuilt over the next three years at a cost of more than $60 million. It's still not known what started the fire.
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