Oh the Firony: blazing station
The Milledgeville fire department caught fire Monday afternoon due to electrical complications spreading mostly throughout the sleeping area.
“It was an electrical fire. Two objects were plugged into a receptacle.” Tom Dietrich said, Milledgeville fire department chief.
The fire did not spread beyond the sleeping quarters and all those who were on duty remained unharmed.
“I was sitting in the car and [a member of the crew] called me on the phone and told me the station was on fire. I thought they were kidding, but he wasn’t kidding,” Dietrich said. “We had a small crew here. We had it under control by the time the fire trucks got here.”
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The Milledgeville Police Department received a call regarding the fire at 3:17 p.m., according to an officer who was diverting traffic around the scene.
The fire spread quickly, but it was contained and no major equipment was damaged, though the fire truck was moved out of the building as a precaution.
“The fire marshall and I had just got back to the station,” Dietrich said. “The smoke detector started raisin’ cain. That’s why it’s so important to have smoke detectors.”
The hallway was filled with black smoke when Dietrich entered the building.
The Milledgeville Police Department reopened W. Thomas St. to vehicular traffic at about 4 p.m. The bunking room was left charred but there was little to no damage visible from the outside the building.
GCSU student Katie Ragusa saw the fire while walking to class.
“There was a whole bunch of commotion,” said Ragusa. “There were a lot of students standing around taking pictures (of the fire).”
The fire chief noted the fire was “really a shock.”
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on Feb 6 2009. Filed under News.
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