http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121109-NEWS-211090421
By Deborah Mcdermott
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November 09, 2012 2:00 AM
ELIOT, Maine — Between $75,000 and $100,000 in damage resulted from an early-morning, two-alarm fire Thursday at Moriarty Electric Co. on Goodwin Road.
The fire, called in at 6:45 a.m., started in the area of a window-mounted pellet stove, Fire Chief Jay Muzeroll said. No one was in the building at the time.
Muzeroll said the first firefighters on the scene "did one heck of a job" of knocking down the fire, which was crucial as the room contained some fully fueled generators being repaired as part of the company's business.
Because it was a weekday and there was "limited manpower," Muzeroll called in a second alarm, and departments from throughout southern York County responded.
Muzeroll said once additional firefighters arrived, they were able to quickly get the blaze under control. However, the entire back wall of the workshop was burned away, he said. Most of the damage cost arose from damage to the company's supplies and the generators. He said Mark Moriarty, president of Moriarty Electric, rented a 20-by-35-foot workshop and office. In the workshop, he sold and repaired generators as well as stored electrical supplies. Moriarty first saw the fire from his home across the street from the building, Muzeroll said.
Muzeroll said that although most of the generators' fuel lines melted, the fuel tanks were not compromised.
Moriarty's office sustained minor smoke and water damage. The owners of the building from whom Moriarty rents live in another section of the building. They were not home and their residence received no damage, Muzeroll said.
He said the window-mounted pellet stove, a model newly on the market, is installed in the window like an air conditioner and vents outside. The fire actually started on the outside of the structure in the vicinity of the stove.
The state fire marshal was called in because no one was in the building at the time, and a precise cause was not known.
The fire was brought under control at about 9:30 a.m. From the time the fire was called in until then, Eliot police rerouted traffic around the scene.
Responding were firefighters from Eliot, York Beach, York Village, South Berwick, York, Kittery, Kittery Point and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, and Rollinsford, N.H.
By Deborah Mcdermott
[email protected]
November 09, 2012 2:00 AM
ELIOT, Maine — Between $75,000 and $100,000 in damage resulted from an early-morning, two-alarm fire Thursday at Moriarty Electric Co. on Goodwin Road.
The fire, called in at 6:45 a.m., started in the area of a window-mounted pellet stove, Fire Chief Jay Muzeroll said. No one was in the building at the time.
Muzeroll said the first firefighters on the scene "did one heck of a job" of knocking down the fire, which was crucial as the room contained some fully fueled generators being repaired as part of the company's business.
Because it was a weekday and there was "limited manpower," Muzeroll called in a second alarm, and departments from throughout southern York County responded.
Muzeroll said once additional firefighters arrived, they were able to quickly get the blaze under control. However, the entire back wall of the workshop was burned away, he said. Most of the damage cost arose from damage to the company's supplies and the generators. He said Mark Moriarty, president of Moriarty Electric, rented a 20-by-35-foot workshop and office. In the workshop, he sold and repaired generators as well as stored electrical supplies. Moriarty first saw the fire from his home across the street from the building, Muzeroll said.
Muzeroll said that although most of the generators' fuel lines melted, the fuel tanks were not compromised.
Moriarty's office sustained minor smoke and water damage. The owners of the building from whom Moriarty rents live in another section of the building. They were not home and their residence received no damage, Muzeroll said.
He said the window-mounted pellet stove, a model newly on the market, is installed in the window like an air conditioner and vents outside. The fire actually started on the outside of the structure in the vicinity of the stove.
The state fire marshal was called in because no one was in the building at the time, and a precise cause was not known.
The fire was brought under control at about 9:30 a.m. From the time the fire was called in until then, Eliot police rerouted traffic around the scene.
Responding were firefighters from Eliot, York Beach, York Village, South Berwick, York, Kittery, Kittery Point and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, and Rollinsford, N.H.
