Crime & Safety

Fire Dept: Woman Brought Barbecue Indoors

Fire department called when smoke began to fill Huntington Station apartment.

Huntington Manor Fire Department responded after a Huntington Station woman brought a small charcoal barbecue inside her apartment Tuesday night.

The woman, a resident of Eagle Rock Apartments on Lenox Road and East 5th Street, was cooking outdoors with the barbecue and then decided to bring it inside her apartment, said a source. Smoke began to fill the apartment although nothing caught fire.

The fire department registered a very high carbon monoxide level upon arrival and aired out the apartment. No one was injured.

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