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Roof collapse shuts down only N. Idaho ice arena

COEUR D'ALENE -- The heavy snow took a tool on North Idaho's only indoor ice skating rink. A large section of the roof at Kyro Ice Arena collapsed late Monday night.

Twisted metal, snapped beams and piles of snow now cover the rink where so many in North Idaho learned to skate and play hockey.

"It's a war zone, scary. It's trusses are down. We're just looking at a lot of work," said Marty Fish, who spent at least five hours a week at Kyro with his family.

The roof collapsed just before 11 p.m. Monday night. No one was inside when it collapsed. Typically there would've been a rink full of people playing hockey well until midnight. But the rink manager noticed something was wrong with the structure and decided to close the doors.

Kyro is a non-profit and the only indoor skating rink in North Idaho. Dozens of hockey teams use the ice for practice and games.

"People drive here from all over. Cheney, Sandpoint - teams drive all the way down from Sandpoint," Fish said.

The closest rink is the Eagles ice Arena in North Spokane, more than 30 miles away. That rink will help, but it will mean earlier and later ice times for teams.

As snow mounts, roofs crumble

SPOKANE -- As the snow continues to mount during the snowiest December on record so, too, do the calls to 911 reporting collapsed and cracked roofs, garages and carports.

As of Tuesday morning numerous calls were made from around Spokane reporting collapses. The Trinity Baptist Church on Monroe, just north of Francis, had its roof collapse around 4 a.m.