Home»Fire Incidents»2008 Incidents»Car Fire Burrillville, RI 560blk of Buxton Street December 5, 2008

Burrillville, RI (PROVIDENCE COUNTY) - Uxbridge, MA Fire Dispatch received a calls for a vehicle on Buxton Street around 1330hrs on December 5, 2008. Engine 1 and Car 1 reported that they were in the area with nothing showing. Companies then investigated the other two Buxton Streets in the area, one in North Smithfield, RI and the second in Burrillville, RI. The three Buxton Streets area all in with in a mile or two of each other. Engine companies from North Smithfield, RI and Burrillville, RI were dispatched to investigate their streets as Uxbridge units continued search also. Uxbridge, MA Car 1 arrived on Burrillville's Buxton Street finding a single vehicle that fully involved that was extending to surrounding brush. Uxbridge Engine 1 arrived and made the stretch on the fire. North Smithfield Engine 1 arrived second due and quickly attacked the brush fire that was taking off into the wooded area off of the roadway. No injuries were reported by the occupant of the vehicle.