City Of Franklin: Franklin Firefighters Quickly Extinguish Bakery Fire In Historic Downtown Franklin

Press release from the City of Franklin:

06/14/2021 3:20 PM

Franklin, TN – Franklin Firefighters quickly extinguished a bakery fire last night (06/13/2021) in historic downtown Franklin.

There were dispatched to Merridee’s Breadbasket Bakery & Restaurant, 110 4th Ave. South, at 5:23 PM for a commercial building fire. The business was closed at the time of the fire and there were no occupants inside, however occupants in adjoining businesses and a 911 caller reported heavy smoke inside the building and a burning smell.

Tower 1 crew forced entry to the restaurant and found fire on the griddle, which had been left on.  They manually activated the hood system, which suppressed most of the fire, then used fire extinguishers to complete extinguishment.  Firefighters searched the building and checked for extension throughout.  No extension was found and the building was cleared.  The fire was under control at 5:33 PM.  Firefighters remained on scene to ventilate smoke from the building.  They turned it back over to the owners once air monitoring and the investigation were complete.

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