Pelican's SnoBalls In Elgin

I'm a Lee Siniavis. A Ballantine business is destroyed after a fire broke out last night. Investigators believe this was no accident. News 19's Emily Corell has more. Tell, tell, tell. Pelican Snowballs on Dutch Fork Road in Ballantine is completely ruined after a fire broke out sometime during Saturday's early morning hours. And the fire is not all that took place. The business was robbed as well. Our store was broken into and our trucks. They started a fire inside and of course our store is in the Ballantine location is 100% a total loss. Merrowan S C. own this Pelicans location as well as the one in Chapin on Murray Linnler wrote. My sister and I started Pelicans five years ago here and we put a lot of love and hard work into it. And it has just become a neighborhood family environment that everyone loves. Paul Prey Lou brought his kids by to get a snow cone when he saw what happened. I don't know what going through people mind right now. This is a nice place for kids come family. So I don't know what people thinking. The Col And says the Richland County Fire Marshal is still investigating. The Richland County Sheriff's Office is investigating as well. It'sad for us. I mean we adapted through the coronavirus and made things work and we're able to bring a little bit of sunshine to all of our customers. And we will continue to do it. We will survive this as well. Merrowan tells us that her security cameras were not working last night in the neighboring businesses. Security cameras cut off right at the beginning of her drive so they were not able to catch anything on footage. If In Ballantine. I'm Emily Corell news 19 WLTX.