Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Firefighters Battle Barn Blaze at Cheshire Academy (with Photos)

Firefighters extinguished the blaze late Tuesday night.

Cheshire firefighters responded to a fire that broke out in a barn on the Cheshire Academy school property late Tuesday night.

Fire officials said the fire at the maintenance garage barn took three hours to completely extinguish.

Three engines from Cheshire and Cheshire ladder plus mutual aid from Wolcott and Prospect responded to the scene to assist for a short while, according to the Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department’s Facebook page.

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The Southington Fire Department covered the town with remaining CFD apparatus.

Photos courtesy of the Cheshire Volunteer Fire Department.

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