Hampton, Portsmouth Firefighters Assist At Multi-Alarm Rye House Fire

RYE, NH — Seacoast firefighters worked a multi-alarm house fire in Rye on Sunday.

Around 10 p.m., firefighters were sent to Long John Road for a report of a fire. The “B Shift” in Rye, Ladder 1, arrived, and mutual aid was requested immediately, Chief Mark Cotreau of the Rye Fire Department, said. Ladder 1 found heavy fire showing from the single-family home and a second alarm was struck. This brought more firefighters to the scene, he said.

“Thanks to quick, aggressive firefighting work from the responding units, the fire was quickly brought under control,” Cotreau said. “Firefighters stopped the spread of the blaze in its tracks, saving an attached home addition from becoming involved in the fire.”

Firefighters remained at the scene throughout the evening, and no injuries were reported.

Assisting Rye firefighters were Rye police and mutual aid fire units from Greenland, Newcastle, North Hampton, and Portsmouth on the first alarm and East Kingston, Hampton, Newington, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Seabrook, and Kittery, Maine, on the second alarm.

Cotreau said the East Kingston air trailer also supported firefighters at the scene. The Newmarket Fire Department covered Rye's fire station during the incident, he added.

The origin and cause of the fire remain under investigation.

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