Fire at Denny's auto body in Selden, authorities say
Multiple fire departments battled a fire at an auto body shop on Middle Country Road in Selden on Saturday morning. Credit: Evan Rolla
Suffolk County police are investigating a fire at an auto body shop in Selden on Saturday morning, according to an email from the agency that said the cause of the fire is "believed to be noncriminal."
The fire occurred at Denny & Sons Custom Auto Body on Middle Country Road in Selden just after 8 a.m. A spokesman from Suffolk Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services said first responders from "Centereach, Coram, Farmingville, Ronkonkoma, Setauket, Holtsville, Terryville, and Port Jefferson Ambulance," responded to the scene.
No injuries were reported and everyone had exited the building before 8:15 a.m., according to a Suffolk County Police Department spokesperson.
Police shut down the adjacent Route 25 as people were evacuating the building, and then reopened the roadway at 10:09 a.m., the Suffolk police spokesperson told Newsday.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated one of the communities from which first responders answered the call.
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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