Pompano Park paddock office destroyed by fire

An electrical fire underneath the Pompano Park paddock judge’s office in the early hours Friday morning caused minimal damage and will not affect either the day’s qualifiers or evening live race card.

“Fortunately, the security on patrol smelled the smoke and called it in,” said Pompano Park director of operations Steve Wolf of the fire that was discovered between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m. “We lost the men’s room, the numbers room—but luckily it was the old numbers that were destroyed—and the race paddock office that was destroyed. Luckily no horses or people were affected.”

Wolf said the paddock protocol due to the fire will be similar to that used after Hurricane Wilma did substantial to the racetrack in October 2005.

“We’ll have to go back and do things like we did after the hurricane,” said Wolf. “We got the paddock judge (Carol Malcolm) a megaphone and we’ll be fine.”

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