Cazenovia, NY – Firefighters battled flame, smoke and wind at a barn fire on Maple Road in Cazenovia Thursday afternoon. The fire, at the Lucas Farm, engulfed a large utility barn but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the nearby home or a large white barn downwind. Fire departments from several area communities, including Manlius, Fayetteville, Pompey...
Cazenovia, NY – Firefighters battled flame, smoke and wind at a barn fire on Maple Road in Cazenovia Thursday afternoon.
The fire, at the Lucas Farm, engulfed a large utility barn but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the nearby home or a large white barn downwind.
Fire departments from several area communities, including Manlius, Fayetteville, Pompey Hill, Delphi Falls, New Woodstock, the Town of Sullivan, Morrisville and Erieville, joined Cazenovia Fire Department at the scene.
A line of tankers, in red and chartreuse, shuttled water to the scene from the nearest fire hydrant far below in the village of Cazenovia. The trucks dumped the water into a fabric pool from which a Cazenovia fire engine pumped it to blue, yellow and orange hose lines.
Cazenovia Deputy Fire Chief Gil Hodges said the fire was well along when firefighters arrived and because no lives were at risk inside the utility barn, firefighters focused on containing the fire and protecting nearby buildings. “The first 15 minutes were the hardest,” he said.
Wind, along with the block and metal construction of the building complicated dousing the fire Hodges said. As the fire broke though walls, firefighters poured water through the new openings.
The fire was called in to emergency dispatchers at 4:10 p.m., nearly two hours later, firefighters were still hosing down hot spots and wind continued to blow smoke and ashes into the early evening sky.
No one was injured in the fire, officials said.