Grocery Store / Super Center, Retail Scranton, PA – Supermarket fire contained to storage area by sprinkler system June 26, 2015 viking210 Fire in the Gerrity’s Supermarket on Meadow Avenue in Scranton Monday night has the store closed today. A quick response from the Scranton Fire Department, and the automated sprinkler system are credited with keeping the fire contained to a small storage area. The damage to the building is minor, but the store is shut down as health inspectors look at food stored in the building. The store had from $500 thousand to a million dollars worth of merchandise inside when it broke out. Store officials expect they will have to throw out a lot of fruit, vegetables, baked goods and food from the deli. They are looking to reopen as soon as possible. Scranton Fire officials will search for the cause, but the owners tell Eyewitness News cleaning equipment may have sparked this fire.
