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A house on 19th Street in Springs suffered extensive damage from a fire on the night of October 18. CHRISTOPHER WALSH
The chimney of the house at 9 19th Street in Springs collapsed soon after firefighters responded to the site. CHRISTOPHER WALSH
A fire caused extensive damage to a Springs house on Friday night, October 18.
First Assistant Chief Brendon Prado of the Springs Fire Department told the Express News Group on Saturday that the department was dispatched to 9 19th Street in the hamlet at 10:19 p.m. for a confirmed structure fire. The Amagansett Fire Department and the East Hampton Fire Department’s rapid-intervention team also responded to the scene.
“There was heavy fire showing from the front side of the house, in the chimney area,” Prado said. “We made a quick stop and knocked the fire down,” he said, “but there was a lot of extension of fire and smoke throughout the house,” which was unoccupied at the time. A ceiling was ripped down to ensure there was no further extension or remaining hotspots in the structure, Prado said.
Julia Ramon, who said that she had bought the property just one week earlier and was planning to rent it, surveyed the damage from the front yard on Saturday morning. She had been working at the house on Friday, leaving at 5:30 p.m., she said. Everything was in order at that time, she said, and she locked the doors upon leaving.
The fire “had a pretty good head start on us,” Prado said. “There was pretty extensive damage, a whole rip-through where the chimney was. The chimney collapsed within the first 5 minutes of fighting the fire.” Firefighters were onsite until 2 a.m., he said.
