For the third time since July, a building has burned at the former Pines Hotel in a suspicious fire. (The other two fires were reported HERE on YW.) The Times Herald Record is reporting that a fire was reported just after 11:00PM this past Thursday. The wood-frame building and its contents reportedly burned to the ground. No one was hurt.

A Fallsburg police Detective told the Record, that the fire was being investigated as arson.

Jerry Ehrlich, who ran the hotel with his wife until 1998, still lives next to the hotel property. “It looked like a forest fire, a big light in the sky,” he said of the chalet fire. “We were just worried about the Yeshiva (of South Fallsburg).”

The yeshiva, a Jewish school, isn’t far from the chalet. Across from the chalet’s entrance road are wood-frame town houses, Pines Estates, that are home to a number of families whose children study at the yeshiva.

“We’re just lucky it wasn’t a windy night out,” Ehrlich said.