Crews contain building fire in Parkville

Published:
Monday, 11 January 2021 at 7:31 pm

A smoke detector connected to an automatic alarm alerted firefighters to an extensive fire at a building in Parkville overnight.

Firefighters arrived on scene within six minutes, just before 4:15am on Tuesday morning.

Wearing breathing apparatus, crews commenced an internal investigation of a three storey building on Story Street.

They were met with an extensive fire in a meeting room that was approximately 10 x 10m in size.

Firefighters contained the blaze to the room, with the second floor of the building sustaining some smoke and water damage.

The fire was declared under control just before 5am, within approximately 45 minutes of firefighters arriving on scene.

FRV’s Fire Investigators will attend the incident to continue investigations into the cause of the fire.  

At the height of the fire there were almost 30 firefighters on scene, on board seven firefighting appliances including a rescue and an aerial unit.

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