CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — No injuries were reported after firefighters responded to an industrial fire Sunday afternoon on Clinton Street in Cheektowaga.
Cheektowaga Police say public safety dispatchers were called at 4:22 p.m. Sunday about a fire at 2260 Clinton St., the home of A&F Wholesale Insulation, a company that sells and stores home heating and insulation materials.
Police say the Forks and Doyle fire districts were the first companies on the scene. They reported seeing flames through the roof of A&F Wholesale Insulation.
After the fire burned through the building for more than an hour one of the company's four buildings was considered a total loss according to Cheektowaga Police. The fire did not reach the other three buildings.
The Cheektowaga Town Highway Department used an excavator and a high lift for cleanup efforts.'
Clinton Street was closed several hours between Harlem Road and South Rossler as crews gathered at the Valu Home Center Shopping Plaza to fight the blaze. It was reopened in both directions at 9 p.m. police later said.
Shopping plaza businesses were impacted because of smoke. A 2 On Your Side photographer witnessed firefighters on ladder trucks, shooting water onto the plaza's roof.
Fire companies on the scene included Doyle, Forks, Southline, Bellevue, Sloan, Winchester, Twin District, Union, and Seneca Hose. A host of other fire districts from Cheektowaga and West Seneca provided mutual aid.
Cheektowaga Police Fire investigators are looking into the cause of the fire.