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Provo Fire Chief Blair Camp said he plans to release a report on March 31 on the cause of the fire that destroyed the Provo Tabernacle in December.
A news release from Provo city says a March 14 fire at The Boulders apartment complex, which killed two residents and injured another, has delayed completion of the Tabernacle report.
The Tabernacle fire was reported early on the morning of Dec. 17, when a security guard from nearby Nu Skin Enterprises alerted an off-duty police officer that smoke was coming from the building. The off-duty officer, who was hired to watch equipment left at the site overnight, had disabled an alarm that was sounding in the Tabernacle after being told the system was prone to false alarms.
Arson has been eliminated as the cause of the fire. Camp has refused to speculate on what might have started it, including rumors that lights brought in for videotaping a performance the night before were responsible.
Two members of Lex de Acevedo's production of "Gloria," the production being videotaped, reported smelling something like "a hot glue gun" or dust burning off a light bulb, but did not make that known until after the fire.
The building was gutted by the blaze but so far the building's owner, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has not said whether it will be rebuilt.
The Salt Lake Tribune