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Fire broke out Friday evening at the quarters of Engine 8 and Squad 1 in New Haven, Connecticut while they were on a run.
New Haven fire crews responded to a kitchen fire in their own fire station on Friday evening.
The fire started in the cooking area at the Whitney Ave station just after 6 p.m. while the crews were responding to a separate fire on Nichols Street.
New Haven Fire Chief John Alston told Channel 3 that a passing police officer saw the smoke and called the incident in to fire crews.
Mark Zaretsky, New Haven Register:
The firehouse fire began in close proximity to a kitchen in the southeast corner of the building “but there is so much soot and smoke up there, we don’t want to place the origin at this time,” Alston said. “We’re going to let the state fire marshal do that for us.”
At 6:25 p.m., a fire officer reported the fire was extinguished.
“From the second floor, there’s a lot of smoke and water damage,” he said. “Upstairs, there’s smoke and water in the dormitories and living areas and there’s extensive damage going in toward this top corner over here.”
