Fire destroys truck in City of Dayton garage

UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m. Oct. 11

The truck that was destroyed was a sewer department truck, not a public works truck, and the incident happened at the division of sewer maintenance garage, not the public works facility, according to a city official.

UPDATE @ 8:20 p.m.:

The sprinkler system in the City of Dayton garage at the public works facility worked as designed in containing the vehicle fire to the one heavy-duty truck, Dayton Fire Chief and Director Jeffrey Payne said.

All fire crews had to do was open the garage doors and vent the building on Ottawa Street because the sprinkler system had knocked out the flames by the time firefighters arrived, he said. That kept damage to the building to a minimum -- there was the partial melting of a plastic skylight. The skylights are designed to melt under high heat, the chief said.

There were four or five other trucks parked near the burned vehicle that would have been heavily damaged had there been no sprinkler system, he said.

An investigator was called to the scene as a matter of standard department protocol, as Payne said it appears no one was in the building when the fire erupted under the truck's hood.

UPDATE @ 6:43 p.m.:

The heavy-duty truck that caught fire inside a City of Dayton garage was destroyed, a Dayton fire official said, noting the Department of Public Works vehicle was worth an estimated $40,000.

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