No injuries were reported after the V.I. Fire and Emergency Medical Services quelled a structure fire Thursday night on Peter’s Farm Road.
According to VIFEMS, the services’ C and A companies were dispatched to the scene shortly after 10 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find two abandoned buildings fully engulfed in flames. The crews entered from the structures’ north side and worked for three hours to bring the fire under control. At 1:30 a.m., VIFEMS cleared the scene.
Nearly six hours later, VIFEMS received a second call reporting smoke emerging from the burned structures. Responding crews found smoldering on the roof and around the buildings, and they extinguished the burning within 15 minutes to prevent the fire from rekindling.
VIFEMS is investigating the cause of the blaze.
Thursday night’s structure fire was the territory’s second one in the past week.
Early Monday morning, crews responded to a structure fire in the Savan Neighborhood on St. Thomas. The cause of that fire is also under investigation.
