GREENFIELD TWP. — Fire leveled a once-popular watering hole early Sunday morning at the northern edge of Lackawanna County.
Only a charred heap remained where the Paradise Inn once stood on Route 106 in Greenfield Twp.
A state police fire marshal is investigating what sparked flames about 5 a.m., Greenfield Fire Chief P.J. Fortuner said. The place was already engulfed when firefighters arrived.
“There was no stopping it,” he said.
A single tenant lived in an upstairs apartment. No one reported injuries.
The Paradise had been in the Mazza family for three generations, said Phil Mazza, whose grandfather, Nicholas “Spike” Mazza, started it decades ago.
Most recently the bar and restaurant was popular among riders at the Hurricane Hills Sports Center motocross track nearby.
Phil Mazza’s brother, Chris Mazza, ran the place until shutting it down within the last year, he said.
He said he wasn’t sure of his brother’s plans, or whether he would rebuild.
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