Car engine catches on fire on Ackerman Avenue
A silver Buick Regal caught on fire in a driveway on the 1000 block of Ackerman Avenue at approximately 11:45 p.m. Sunday.
The Syracuse Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire by midnight, said Bob Cussen, district chief of the Syracuse Fire Department. Cussen said the fire appears to have started in the engine after the owner of the Buick attempted to back up his car. The fire department had the fire out within five minutes of getting on the scene, he said.
‘It was basically contained to the engine,’ Cussen said.
The residents of the house waited outside on the street as the firefighters put out the fire.
Neighbors waited outside while the fire department put out the fire and went back inside their homes at about 12:25 a.m.
The Syracuse Police Department assisted on the scene, as two cruisers sat at the intersection of Stratford Street and Ackerman Avenue. A snowplow driver attempted to drive up Ackerman at 12:25 a.m. but was told by Cussen to go back down the street, closer to Euclid Avenue.
By 12:30 a.m. the four Syracuse fire trucks on the scene were getting ready to leave Ackerman.
Published on March 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Contact Jon: jdharr04@syr.edu
