LYNN — At 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Lynn Fire Department received news of a fire in a four-story building at the corner of Exchange and Spring Street.
The fire was on the third floor of the building, according to Lieutenant Denis Ring, Public Information Officer with the Fire Department. Ring said the call came from a concerned resident who was passing by when they noticed the fire in the windows of the building.
The first company to arrive found fire venting out the third floor and overlapping onto the fourth floor of the structure, Ring said. District Chief Michael McBride was the officer in charge. When McBride arrived, he ordered a second alarm.
The second-alarm companies took about an hour to extinguish the blaze. The 100-year-old commercial building was unoccupied at the time of the fire, Ring said. While the Fire Department determined that the building’s fire alarm system, which was maintained by a private company, had worked properly, firefighters discovered that smoke and water damaged other units of the building.
The Fire Department reported no injuries to the public or to the firefighters.
The fire remains under investigation by the Lynn Fire Investigation Unit, the Lynn Police, and the Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s office, Ring said.
