Transmission shop receives heavy damage in Tuesday fire

  • Billowing clouds of smoke pour from the C and R Transmission shop on Garland Street Tuesday after a lithium ion battery caught fire and spread through the building.
    Billowing clouds of smoke pour from the C and R Transmission shop on Garland Street Tuesday after a lithium ion battery caught fire and spread through the building.
    A lithium ion battery is blamed for a fire Tuesday at C&R Transmission, located at 135 Garland Street. The building and several customer vehicles were heavily damaged or destroyed.OCESD# 1 Fire Chief Robert L. Smith said in a release, “on the evening of October 8, 2024, at approximately 5:30 p.m., we were called for a commercial structure fire. The crew arrived in around three minu...

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