A fire broke out late Friday night on the second floor of 181 No. 2 Farm Acre Road at approximately 11:50 p.m. No one was injured, said Lt. Edward Weber of the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety.

The fire occurred in an upstairs bedroom and was contained within five minutes, Weber said. Firefighters knocked out a second-floor window of the apartment to allow smoke to escape and climbed in to contain the fire. The cause is still under investigation.

The entire apartment complex was evacuated as soon as DPS arrived on the scene. Weber was unsure if students living in No. 2 were home at the time of the fire.

‘We saw a lot of smoke, coming from the front and the back of the building,’ said Courtney Hunt, a junior who was driving back to her apartment on Chinook Drive with her roommate when the fire started. ‘I didn’t see any flames, just a lot of smoke. We could smell it driving by.’

Students living in all apartments except one and two were allowed back in at around 12:45 a.m. Students living in apartments 1 and 2 will be given different living arrangements for the rest of the semester due to smoke damage, Weber said.

Jovan Miller, a sophomore who lives in No. 3, could smell the smoke in his adjacent apartment.

‘I was about to go to sleep, we have a game in a couple hours, but I could smell something,’ said Miller, a midfielder for the SU men’s lacrosse team. ‘I went upstairs to lay down, and it was stronger upstairs. I cracked a window and could hear the sirens getting closer and closer and then I heard the blast of a water hose.’

Electricity was still cut off from the building while the Syracuse fire department investigated the cause of the fire.

Two fire trucks were left at the scene at around 12:45 a.m. Farm Acre Road was blocked off at both the Small Road entrance and Lambreth Lane entrance starting at around midnight and were still blocked off at about 1 a.m.

eaconnor@syr.edu

Published on May 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm