Brookfield Firefighters Tackle Warehouse Blaze

BROOKFIELD, CT — No one was injured when firefighters from a number of local fire departments, including Brookfield Volunteer Fire Company, tackled a warehouse fire Tuesday evening.

Crews from the Bethel Fire Department and Stony Hill Volunteer Fire Company were dispatched to 32 Henry Street at 8:24 p.m. when an automatic fire alarm was activated. The fire companies upgraded the classification to "working fire" following the activation of a second alarm.

Additional crews from Danbury and Brookfield were then called to the scene.

The sprinkler system contained the blaze to a small section of the warehouse while firefighters worked to extinguish the boat motors and lithium-ion batteries involved in the fire, according to Stony Hill fire officials.

Crews operated on scene for several hours, searching for and extinguishing pockets of fire, and ventilating the large warehouses adjacent to the fire building.

Due to the hazard that lithium-ion batteries pose when subjected to fire and heat, the Danbury Fire Department's HazMat team and a crew from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection were called to the scene for an assessment. It was determined that the batteries would be disposed of by an outside environmental company contractor, according to the Bethel Emergency Management & Fire Marshal Office, which is investigating the fire.