Many changes took place Saturday at the Bank Of America branch site on the corner of Triangle and East Pleasant streets.

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A new temporary banking facility was being readied on the site where the Bank of America branch was destroyed by fire on August 25th.

Customers of the branch, located at the corner of East Pleasant and Triangle Streets, have been served by a large red “Mobile Banking Center” truck parked there in the days following the fire. This afternoon, employees were seen carrying boxes from the red truck into the new tan pre-fab structure.

No one on-site was authorized to comment publicly about the status of the new structure or how long they expect to utilize it.

While this move was taking place, heavy-equipment operators were completing the destruction and removal of the vault, formerly a large cement bunker, which had been the only remnant of the bank building still standing after the fire. Today it was reduced to a pile of concrete rubble and twisted metal reinforcing mesh.

By evening, that debris pile and the red truck were gone.

--Stephanie O’Keeffe

The new temporary banking structure is seen behind the remains of the original bank vault.

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This pile of rubble and twisted metal was all that remained of the vault Saturday afternoon. By evening, it and the Mobile Banking Center truck seen in the background, had both been removed from the site.

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