Maysville Fire Chief Kevin Doyle said MFD was called to the Lowe’s store at about 3:30 p.m., to answer reports of a fire inside the business located on East Maple Leaf Road.
When firefighters arrived they found a rack of lawn furniture cushions in the Lawn and Garden section in flames, he said,
The store’s sprinkler system had already activated to control the fire, Doyle said. Firefighters had the fire out in short order, he said.
“It was out pretty quickly,” he said.
There was no obvious source to have ignited the fire, Doyle said. The merchandise was not newly displayed and had been stocked for some time, he said.
Although there was electrical power source nearby it was not affected or damaged by the fire and remained intact, Doyle said.
No one was injured and the store was shut down for a short time, he said.
Detectives T.C. Rice and Michael Parsons of the Maysville Fire Department are reviewing security video to see who was in the area at the time the fire started, Doyle said.
Anyone with information about the fire is asked to contact Doyle at 606-564-2541 or Parsons at 606-564-9411.
Firefighters were called to a fire at Hardymon Lumber in downtown Maysville on Saturday evening. The fire destroyed the business’s office and showroom but did not spread to areas where lumber was stored. The business was up and running by Monday.
The cause of that fire has officially been listed as undetermined.
