Hotel / Restaurant, Restaurant Staten Island, NY – Sprinkler system activates to help control restaurant fire December 18, 2015 viking210 Firefighters are on the scene at Bocelli Restaurant in Grasmere after a report of a grease fire, according to an FDNY spokesman. Several units responded to the restaurant, located in a shopping center at 1250 Hylan Blvd., after the fire was reported at 1:03 p.m., the spokesman said. No injuries have been reported and the incident appeared to be minor, the spokesman said. An employee said the sprinkler went off in the restaurant. Several FDNY engines were inside the shopping center, and blocking the right lane of northbound Hylan. According to a patron inside the establishment at the time, the restaurant was fairly crowded when customers began smelling a strong gas odor. Workers asked everyone to leave and once the patrons were outside, the sprinkler system went off.
