Fire reported in Stony Brook residence hall, say firefighters

A blaze broke out in a Stony Brook University residence hall Thursday night, causing water and smoke damage in the three-story building, officials said.

There were no injuries, a spokesman for the university said Friday morning, adding that all occupants of the building were evacuated.

University fire marshals worked with fire departments to help extinguish the blaze in one room of Douglass College, a residence hall on the Tabler Quad, the spokesman said.

About 70 students were evacuated and relocated, the spokesman said, explaining that residents from A wing were able to return to their rooms after the fire was extinguished, but residents from B wing, where the fire occurred, have been provided with temporary housing on campus. The latter will remain in temporary housing through the weekend, he said.

The 8:46 p.m. fire was extinguished in less than half an hour, according to Stony Brook Fire Department firefighter Dave Smith. He said the building sustained water and smoke damage.

Stony Brook firefighters received help from the Setauket and Centereach fire departments, Smith said.

“The one-room fire has been extinguished,” Smith said in a telephone interview shortly before 9:15 p.m. “There was some smoke damage extended to the other floors” of the hall on the southern edge of the sprawling campus, which encompasses more than 1,000 acres.

Smith said each of the three responding fire departments was searching and cleaning a floor of the three-story building, and that firefighters had already put fans in place to blow smoke outside.

The Stony Brook University spokesman said the cause of the fire was being investigated.

With Newsday Staff