BURRILLVILLE – A fireplace late Wednesday morning brought about vital harm to a kitchen and adjoining room at a constructing housing the Brothers of the Sacred Coronary heart in Harrisville, with two folks on the scene transported for medical care.
Harrisville Fireplace Division Chief Marcel Fontenault mentioned crews responded to the blaze at 685 Steere Farm Highway at 11:19 a.m. on Wednesday, Might 14 after an alarm within the constructing was tripped by smoke. The 32-acre property contains a construction with greater than 20,000-square-feet of dwelling house on every of three flooring together with a completed basement, based on city property information, and serves as dwelling to 14 brothers together with constructing employees.
Fontenault mentioned that when firefighters arrived on the property, “There was a fairly substantial fireplace within the kitchen.”
The grease fireplace had prolonged to the kitchen cupboards, additionally damaging an adjoining room.
The chief mentioned the blaze was below management in lower than 45 minutes with the assistance of mutual help, and that the residents had been moved to a protected a part of the big construction – and wouldn’t should be displaced.
Two folks had been transported to a close-by hospital with smoke-related accidents.
The State Fireplace Marshal was on scene Wednesday afternoon investigating the incident.
“The whole lot seems as if it was an unintended cooking fireplace,” Fontenault mentioned.
