Gardner Fire Department Extinguishes Truck Fire and Saves old Rome Furniture Building
From Gardner Fire Department on 2-20-24 “Around 9:00 A.M. this morning, Gardner Fire Group 3 responded for a reported truck fire on Main St. Fire crews arrived to find a fully involved pickup truck, just mere feet away from the old Rome building. Crews were able to knock the fire down just as heat from the fire was beginning to melt siding and break windows on the Rome building. No injuries on scene. “ No further details are available at this time.
While they have not yet opened a furniture store at the location and it is unclear if they will, Manzel Furniture and Rugs out of Peabody stores a significant amount of inventory in the building which could have been lost had the Gardner Fire Department not gotten the fire under control.
We wrote about Manzel in 2021,but the furniture store they said was coming did not come to pass. View our original article, CLICK HERE.