Fire erupts in downtown Longmont restaurant

A sprinkler system helped extinguish a small Wednesday morning fire inside Antonios, a downtown Longmont restaurant at 246 Main St., authorities said.

Assistant fire chief Dan Higgins said police initially were dispatched to the restaurant on a report of an intrusion alarm and officers reported seeing flames inside the front of the building when they arrived.

Higgins said the sprinkler system already had been activated when officers arrived, and fire crews were dispatched shortly before 4 a.m.. Authorities forced the front door open, finding and completing the putting out of a small fire inside the restaurants dining area.

Higgins said no one appeared to have been inside the restaurant when police and firefighters arrived, no one was injured, and the fire hadnt appeared to have caused any structural damage to the building. He said the cause of the fire was under investigation.

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Fire erupts in downtown Longmont restaurant