Port Jefferson Apartment Building Evacuated After Fire Scare: FD

PORT JEFFERSON, NY — About one hundred people were evacuated on Wednesday afternoon, after a fire scare in a Port Jefferson apartment building, Port Jefferson Fire Department said.

According to officials, a resident of The Shipyard apartment buildings, located at 201 W Broadway, was in his third-floor apartment when a toaster oven caught on fire. The man was not cooking at the time, he told officials, and used two fire extinguishers to expel the flames.

"The whole third floor was packed down with smoke", said Steve Erland, second assistant chief of the Port Jefferson Fire Department.

An alert in the apartment alarmed the Port Jefferson and Terryville Fire Departments, and Port Jefferson Emergency Medical Services at 2:47 p.m., officials said.

About one hundred people were evacuated from the building in order to air out the smoke, Kace Cox, assistant community manager at The Shipyard told Patch. More than three hundred people live in the apartment complex, she said.

No one was injured, officials said.