ALBION - More fundraisers are set to help the three families who lost everything when fire destroyed their houses Dec. 5.
John Wragg, owner of Torquil Studios in Middleport, along with Albion Lions Club and Masonic Lodge of Medina and Albion are organizing a concert that will be livestreamed on Facebook Sunday.
The event is from 1 to 5 p.m., with all the musicians performing from Wraggâs studio.
The lineup includes Bob Beccue, Linda Logan, Mike Hartman, Highway 31 Unplugged and Jonesie and the Cruisers. Wragg said the lineup may change.
Donations can be made through Albion Lions Club by going to albionlionsclub@yahoo.com.
Dec 11, 2020
The Albion man who was injured in an explosion in his own garage last Saturday, has been arrested for causing it.
Police Chief Roland Nenni says Gary Tarr is facing five counts of felony reckless endangerment one for each person in the three homes that caught fire.
Other charges include arson, criminal mischief and misdemeanor reckless endangerment.
Two of the damaged homes are total losses and will be demolished.
Police are concerned other people may have potentially dangerous explosive devices Tarr made. Some have been recovered.
Updated: 1:09 PM EST December 11, 2020
An arrest has been made in relation to the explosion and subsequent fire that happened in Albion last weekend.
Gary A. Tarr, 56, has been arrested on several charges relating to the fire that impacted three homes and sent one person to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
2 On Your Side s Dave McKinley shared that the police believe Tarr was mixing compounds to make fireworks, which resulted in the explosion.
Albion man facing numerous felony charges for Sat. fire that destroyed three houses as a result of what cops say was mixing compounds to make fireworks & causing mass explosion, released without bail @WGRZpic.twitter.com/AOS3wRsOPF Dave McKinley (@DaveMcKinley2) December 11, 2020