AUGUSTA, ILL. -- UPDATED: February 2 at 7 a.m.

Days after fire destroyed Augusta's former elementary school, plans are in place to bring the ruins down.

You'll recall an electrical fire gutted the vacant school early Saturday morning.

According to the Hancock County Journal Pilot, the building owner is bringing a company in to salvage the usable brick from the building.

He hopes to sell bricks from the building to pay for the cost of the clean-up efforts of the uninsured building.

Unusable bricks will be buried at the site.

No word on the future direction of the site after demolition. Read the details in the Hancock County Journal-Pilot.

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Original Story: January 28

A vacant building in Augusta is destroyed after it caught on fire early Saturday morning.

The Augusta Fire Department was called to the scene between three and three thirty a.m.

When they arrived the building was fully engulfed in flames. The cause of the fire was electrical.

All three of the city's fire departments responded to the call as well as fire departments from Tri County and Bowen.

The building use to be a school, then the Lions Club.

It was recently sold to a new owner. No word on what the owner plans to do with the ruins.