Crews respond to fire in downtown Stayner

CLEARVIEW TWP. Township firefighters responded to a blaze on Stayner's main street, Thursday afternoon.

Crews showed up at 7293 Highway 26 around 2:15 p.m. and successfully contained the fire, which is believed to have started due to roofing activities at the unoccupied apartment above Linke's Local Arts Gallery and Art Supply.

The information we received was that there was smoke in the building and possibly apartments that had residents in upstairs, Clearview Fire Chief Colin Shewell said.

We requested Collingwood Tower 1 as a paid agreement for this area, as the location of this fire was in the downtown core of Stayner and to be preventative we wanted to have an aerial apparatus respond to this location if there was a fire to limit the extent of the fire," Shewell added.

Police, fire crews and emergency medical attended the scene where the fire was successfully put out.

Nobody was hurt.

Buildings on all sides of this structure were not at risk at any time, Shewell said, adding that the fire was contained to the rear wall of the apartment by fire crews who initially arrived on scene. It appears that the fire was caused by a roofing activity on the rear of the building.

Shewell said that in addition to nobody being hurt by the fire there was nobody present in the apartment which he believes has been unoccupied for some time and last had occupants in it formerly which he knows of three to four months ago.

They were empty at this time. There occupants in it we knew of three to four months ago, Shewell said. We had been there helping them with inspections ... but it appears that there are no residents in the building.

The cause is still being investigated, but appears to have been due to roofing.

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Crews respond to fire in downtown Stayner