No one was hurt after a fire broke out at a home in downtown Oak Bluffs Sunday.
Oak Bluffs firefighters were called to 22 Kennebec avenue at 1:36 p.m. after the people at the home found smoke in the basement, according to Oak Bluffs fire chief Stephen Foster.
He said the occupants reported an open flame came into contact with an exterior wall of the building.
Because of the house’s age and its position in a neighborhood tightly packed with other homes and businesses, Oak Bluffs fire called in help from the Tisbury, Edgartown and West Tisbury departments. The Oak Bluffs police department subsequently shut down the street, Chief Foster said.
According to Chief Foster, first responders extinguished the flame then cleared out at 2:47 p.m. He said the fire caused minimal damage to the home, no abutting buildings were damaged, no one was hurt and the occupants returned to their home soon afterward.
He praised the Oak Bluffs fire department for a job well done and other departments across the Island for their support.
“That’s a highly congested, tight neighborhood full of older style buildings in that area,” he said of Kennebec avenue. “Pre-planning, professional, calm decision making and execution of strategies and tactics … really helped with this incident.”