There were no injuries as the result of a fire that caused extensive damage at a commercial garden nursery in the Goulds early this afternoon.
Intense flame and heavy smoke confronted firefighters when they arrived at Rise and Shine Nursery shortly after 1:00 this afternoon.
Platoon Chief Dean Foley with the St. John’s Regional Fire Department says when firefighters from a nearby station first arrived the barn was fully engulfed.
Some 20 firefighters, including those from the Mount Pearl and St. John’s West fire stations joined in to help knock the blaze down.
Employees were on site when the fire broke out but there were no injuries.
Platoon Chief Foley says firefighters managed to knock the blaze down fairly quickly despite the intensity of the fire.
“Once it got fully going, the entire structure burned, and it actually went down. The initial structure is a total loss,” says Foley. He says there were four other greenhouses that sustained heat damage.
An investigation into the cause of the fire has been handed over to the RNC.
Earlier Story
First responders are on the scene of a major fire at Rise and Shine Nursery in the Goulds.
St. John’s Regional Fire Department and RNC officers are attending to the situation with billows of black smoke rising high into the sky.
There is no word on any injuries or the extent of the damage. VOCM News will have more information as it becomes available.
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