FOG BLOG SAINT JOHN NEWS LOG: FORT LATOUR DAMAGED BY FIRE!

Saint John's newly recreated Fort La Tour damaged by 'suspicious' overnight fire...Harbourfront project in the works for decades was supposed to open in June.....Place Fort La Tour hadn't even officially opened when fire ripped through the newly recreated fortress on Saint John's waterfront early Wednesday morning.

The project has been decades in the making, so the damage caused by the fire is devastating to those who have worked so hard to make it happen.

"There's no words," said Beth Hatt, the chair of the Fort La Tour Development Authority.

"It's sad, it's disappointing. We've been working years for this and so many volunteers ... It's just really unfortunate. We were ready to open in three weeks."

Hatt said the alarms started to go off at about 2 a.m. on Wednesday.

"By the time I got here from Grand Bay, they had it fairly under control, but the extent this morning is … I mean, we all had tears last night. When you work this long and this hard, this is really difficult," she said Wednesday morning while surveying the damage in the daylight.