COLORADO SPRINGS — In July of 2021, officers reported an arsonist established fire to many enterprises in Old Colorado Town. They supposedly qualified a strip shopping mall, setting fire to a UPS retail outlet which unfold to other businesses in the vicinity, and Residence of Flags, a business that experienced been standing in the local community due to the fact 1995.

The proprietor of the company, John Seebeck, reported the framework of the making was mostly in tact, but the worst matter was the smoke.

“They did not realize at the time that flags do not burn off. They melt and give off this obnoxious gray-black smoke,” Seebeck reported.

Seebeck explained somebody had piled the flags in heaps and set fireplace to them, building a substantial reduction in inventory for the organization.

“All the home within the building was completely, either damaged by hearth, smoke and drinking water and is just unusable. So fundamentally all ruined,” he reported.

The creating had to be cleared of smoke, and when that was done, all that was remaining was acquiring inventory, which Seebeck stated, was not a compact feat.

“With the offer chain complications and complications with transportation and other matters, I could not seem to get an dreadful good deal of the substance that I needed to set on the cabinets. Can not discover people today to actually sew the flags,” he said.

Regardless of the struggles with the inventory as very well as locating individuals to function, House of Flags mentioned they strategy on reopening Jan. 4.

“Hopefully that’ll come to be it’s reality and we can then carry on onward providing our clients what they what they want, what they need as significantly as flags and flagpoles are worried,” Seebeck said.

The arson is still an ongoing investigation and officers are inquiring that if you have any information and facts that could assist, you can call…