Cause of fire at former Elan School undetermined, officials say [Video]

The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office said investigators were not able to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed a building at the former campus of the Elan School.The Nov. 17 fire leveled a vacant one-story building in Poland. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss confirmed to Maine’s Total Coverage that the extent of damage to the building left the fire marshal’s office unable to identify the cause.Poland Fire Chief Thomas Printup said on the day of the fire that he was suspicious of the fire’s origin.”There’s no power in the buildings. At this point, it seems like a questionable occurrence,” Printup said.The Elan School, which closed in 2011, was known as a place for troubled teenagers. The annual fee for parents was $55,000 per child.The private, for-profit boarding school that was opened in 1970 by psychiatrist Gerald Davidson and Joe Ricci, the former owner of the Scarborough …