No injuries were reported in the blaze.
At around 6:03 p.m. Sunday, the countyâs 911 communications center received several calls about a detached garage on fire at a residence off Sunset Circle, according to a county news release.
Firefighters from the Bethel and Hertford volunteer fire departments were dispatched and on arrival they discovered the garage fully involved in flames, the release said.
Crews were able to extinguish the fire and protect surrounding homes but they were unable to save the garage.
Assisting the fire departments were the Perquimans Sheriffâs Office and the county emergency medical services agency and Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. A crew from Winfall Fire Department also was dispatched but was called off while on its way to the scene, the release said.
Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. will conduct a planned outage Tuesday that will affect the majority of its members in Chowan County as well as some in neighboring Perquimans County.
AEMC said the outage, which begins at 9 a.m. and will last about five hours, will help the energy cooperative bring online a new substation as well as perform maintenance on its system.
The recently completed West Albemarle substation will serve as a transmission facility to feed power to AEMCâs Edenton substation in Chowan, the cooperative said. The substation will also feed the future Bethel substation, which should be completed in the next couple of years, as well as a future substation to replace the current Edenton substation.