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December 18, 2007

Update: Fire out at Brown University heating plant

PROVIDENCE -- Firefighters put out a blaze in about 40 minutes this afternoon that began in a roof exhaust vent of a Brown University heating plant that supplies "quite a few" of the university's buildings on the city's East Side, a fire battalion chief said.

No one was injured in the fire at 235 Lloyd Ave.

Battalion Chief Thomas Brearley said the affected exhaust vent is for a boiler in the building and that vent appeared to have had some corrosion before the fire. The vent does handle high temperatures.

The fire spread to some degree to the roof.

Brearley said firefighters had to cut an area of roof around the vent to knock out the fire's source. He said he did not believe the boiler was affected.

Brearly said he believed the university was able to use another boiler and that heating for buildings was not affected.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 4:17 PM | Permalink

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