Flames extending 30 feet in the air were reported last week during a raging fire on Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett.
The first call came in at 5:45 a.m. on April 1. Employees at Whitney Woodwork told police that when they arrived at work that morning there were flames coming out of the roof and around the edges of two garage doors.
Jonathan Veliz, one of the employees, called 911. By the time police arrived, the Amagansett Fire Department was already on the scene. Police contacted the owner of the property, Debbie DiSunno, who lives in a house in front of the commercial space.
Ms. DiSunno, who is a member of the Fire Department, told police she’d been awakened by the sound of her emergency pager. Looking out her back door, she said, she realized it was her own property ablaze.
Mr. Veliz, along with Jaime Chavez and Edwin Caal-Chavez, all of Hampton Bays, who are cabinet makers for the company, said they’d been at the shop the day before sanding cabinets and cabinet doors until around 5:30 p.m.
Police and fire crews diverted Route 27 traffic that morning while the blaze was being put down. No one was injured, and the fire was not considered suspicious.
In other firefighter news, smoke at the Maidstone Club on the morning of March 31 turned out to be from a small fire. According to reports, East Hampton Village police and the East Hampton Fire Department arrived at the private club to find the caretaker already on the roof of the poolhouse using a fire extinguisher on the flames.
That fire is believed to have been caused by a faulty electrical outlet.