Fire damages environmental testing business

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Fire damages environmental testing business Wed Sep 19, 2007, 12:55 AM

EDTBy Dan Sullivan/Daily News staff

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WESTWOOD - Fire damaged the inside of an environmental testing business

yesterday at 307 Pond St., according to fire officials.

Multiple callers to 911 reported seeing smoke coming from the roof of the

Envirotest Asbestos Consulting Laboratory at 3:50 p.m., fire officials said.

Responding firefighters found heavy smoke coming from the building, said Fire

Chief Scoble.

" There was a lot of smoke damage, " Scoble said. " The fire damage was confined

to one office space on the first floor. "

Firefighters knocked down the blaze within 15 minutes of their arrival.

Scoble said that a large ceiling vent in the room where the fire originated

funneled much of the smoke into the building's attic. A dollar estimate of the

damage was not immediately available.

A fire inspector had yet to determine the cause of the fire late yesterday.

Traffic on Pond Street was temporarily blocked off at the intersection of

Clapboardtree Street and Circuit Road as emergency vehicles responded to the

scene.

A sign outside the building indicated the business specializes in soil analysis

and air quality testing for lead, mold, asbestos and radon.

The building's owners could not be reached for comment.

Daily News staff writer Dan Sullivan can be reached at 781-433-8337 or

.Sullivan@...

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