Fire destroys detached garage
Published 6:36 pm Saturday, July 18, 2015
Suffolk firefighters were unable to save a garage that caught fire in the early hours of Saturday morning in the 500 block of Kings Fork Road.
Emergency dispatchers were notified of the fire at 4:25 a.m., and firefighters arrived on the scene at 4:30 a.m. to find a large detached garage had been destroyed by fire, according to a press release from Suffolk spokeswoman Diana Klink. There were no injuries.
Klink stated that the damage is estimated to have amounted to $50,000. No residents were displaced by the fire.
The cause of the fire is unknown, Klink stated, and the Fire Marshal’s office is handling the investigation.