By Elio Gugliotti, Editor
Smoke drifts out of a commercial garage at Tice Lawn Maintenance at 103 Cheshire Road in Prospect on Dec. 24. A landscaping dump truck inside the garage caught fire and was destroyed. –CONTRIBUTED BY ED MALASPINA
PROSPECT A Christmas Eve fire destroyed a dump truck at a landscaping company on Cheshire Road.
Firefighters responded to a report of a structure fire at Tice Lawn Maintenance, 103 Cheshire Road, at 5:07 p.m. Dec. 24, said Ed Malaspina, a firefighter and public information officer for the Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect.
When firefighters arrived on the scene four minutes later, Malaspina said smoke was coming out of a commercial garage that housed landscaping vehicles and equipment. He said firefighters went into the garage and found a landscaping dump truck on fire.