Vehicle Fire - Garfield Parkway & St. Ann's Church

Sunday, May 4, 2014

On a warm Sunday morning in Bethany Beach, Station 70 was dispatched to Garfield Parkway in front of St. Ann’s Church for a vehicle fire. A Bethany PD unit doing traffic control had caught fire in the passenger compartment as it sat in the turn lane. Officers on scene had shut the unit down and used extinguishers to knock the fire down. Rescue 70 and C-70 responded from headquarters with the crew stretching an 1 ¾” attack line to extinguish the fire. Fire police shut down Garfield Parkway to protect responders operating on scene. The fire is under investigation by the state fire marshal.