The historic Kennedy Meadow Resort lodge near Dodge Ridge Ski Resort burned down early Monday morning. Seven cabins and several other buildings were destroyed in a fire that began around 1 a.m. The resort is located near Strawberry in the Stanislaus National Forest on Highway 108. According to CalFire officials, the fire was first reported just after 2 a.m. The owners, Matt and Leslie Bloom, said the lodge, including the restaurant and store are destroyed as well as six or seven cabins. The Blooms and others succeeded in limiting the fire’s spread, saving a number of cabins as well as the saloon and the corral and pack station where hundreds saddle up each summer for trips into the nearby Emigrant Wilderness. All the customers got out safely. Kennedy Meadows Resort was built in 1917. Tuolumne County Fire spokesman Craig Hart said fire escaping from a wood stove pipe set the lodge roof ablaze. A Stockton Record story.