It's a devastating loss for the community: Fire destroyed a building in Mullan that housed the iconic Silver Dollar bar and a steelworker's union hall early Tuesday morning.

The fire started around 3 a.m. on the 200 block of Earle Avenue.

When Mullan volunteer firefighters got to the scene the building was fully engulfed in flames. and it was clear that building was a total loss so they went into defensive mode and focused on protecting the surrounding structures from the fire.

"I got a call at 3 o'clock in the morning that said that my building was on fire," Terry Haumer said.

Fortunately that wasn't the case; Haumer owns the Motherload Bistro right next to the Silver Dollar Bar.

"The flames were coming this way, there were cinders about the size of a platter that were dropping on the roof of this building but there was about thirty firemen they were doing a good job of containing it," Haumer said.

"We had to put water on these buildings and across the street it broke some windows and things like that because of the heat, that was our main concern," Mullan Fire Chief Chuck Reynolds said.

In 2008, three-year-old Kyra Wine became the victim of the worst case of child abuse in Benewah County history, her injuries so severe doctor's amputated her feet. Now, five years later, she's an active, happy eight-year-old girl.

The abuse Kyra and her sister Amanda endured is heartbreaking and unimaginable but now they are thriving.

"Every birthday, yeah, every birthday is special," Kyra's grandma, Deanna Wine said.

For her eighth birthday, Kyra didn't ask for anything special.

"I just let them get whatever they want," Kyra said.

Making the gifts on her grandma's kitchen table an even bigger surprise; a birthday is always a big deal when you're a kid, but when you're Kyra, each candle carries more than a wish. They're a symbol of survival, a light of hope.

"When this all happened with Kyra the doctors said that basically she had hours," Deanna said. "If she hadn't been taken to the hospital she had just hours to live."

On June 17, 2008 Benewah County Sheriff's deputies responded to a home for a welfare check on Kyra, then three-years-old, and her six-year-old sister Amanda. They couldn't have found them any sooner.