Crime & Safety

NLFD Responds to Basement Fire in Vacant Commercial Building

The North Lindenhurst Fire Department also stops a related carbon monoxide leak and clears the building - located next to Pizza Hut on Sunrise Highway - on Wednesday afternoon.

A basement fire in a vacant commercial building located at 19 East Sunrise Highway triggered a carbon monoxide leak and caused the adjacent Wellwood Avenue on ramp onto Sunrise Highway on the South side of the highway to be shut down for a short time on Wednesday afternoon.

The North Lindenhurst Fire Department responded to the fire in the building that sits next to Pizza Hut, and was able to clear the building of very high levels of carbon monoxide related to the fire.

"We got a call about the basement fire. It was a bad gas burner in the basement," NLFD Deputy Chief Mike Newman told Lindenhurst Patch.

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"The levels of carbon monoxide were more than 600 - which is very high - and that's why the firefighters had to use their Scott Packs," he said.

According to Newman the realtor for the property was showing it to someone when she took the person down to the basement and discovered flames shooting out of the oil burner.

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They got out right away, and no one was harmed, Newman said.

The superintendent for the building, Bill Connors, was at the scene, and told Patch the realtor called the office, which in turn, called him to come.

"We shut the burner down, and we cleared the carbon monoxide using our fans," Newman said, adding the Babylon Town fire marshal and Suffolk Police responded to the call, as well, as per standard procedure.

"There was no damage, but they have to get the burner replaced," he said.

"Yes, we'll have to replace it, and we'll have to have someone to look at that," added Connors, who was also told the NLFD "killed the gas main."

He also said the man who was viewing the building with the realtor on Wednesday afternoon was still interested in the building despite the incident.

 

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