William M. Broneill will never forget the call he got on July 11, 2012 at 4 a.m. It was the Manchester police, telling him that his law office was on fire. “I ran right over, I was in a state of shock,” he said. “The firemen were knocking down hotspots and there were flames visible, I just stood there, mesmerized.”
The fire inside the three-story colonial on East Center Street had been ignited by a Manchester man, who broke in with two others in an apparent burglary and set the fire to destroy any evidence. Although nothing was stolen from Broneill’s office, the damage totaled over $300,000. Some things that were lost were irreplaceable.
