Jay Bradish, of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works, tears down the Winter Carnival Ice Palace with heavy machinery on Wednesday. The weather has been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety reasons. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Jay Bradish, of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works, tears down the Winter Carnival Ice Palace with heavy machinery on Wednesday. The weather has been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety reasons. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Jay Bradish, of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works, tears down the Winter Carnival Ice Palace with heavy machinery on Wednesday. The weather has been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety reasons. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Jay Bradish, of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works, tears down the Winter Carnival Ice Palace with heavy machinery on Wednesday. The weather has been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety reasons. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Jay Bradish, of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works, tears down the Winter Carnival Ice Palace with heavy machinery on Wednesday. The weather has been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety reasons. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Tristin Fitzgerald of the Saranac Lake Department of Public Works pushes ice blocks from the the Winter Carnival Ice Palace toward the Lake Flower shoreline where they were harvested on Wednesday. The weather had been warm and the ice blocks were becoming unstable, so the village tore down the structure for safety. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)