Firefighters closed Main Street in downtown Bangor to traffic for less than an hour early Monday afternoon following a fire alarm triggered by food on an apartment stove, March 23, 2022. Credit: Sawyer Loftus / BDN

Firefighters closed Main Street in downtown Bangor to traffic for less than an hour early Monday afternoon following a fire alarm triggered by food on an apartment stove.

Firefighters brought out a hose and closed down the road as a precaution, Deputy Fire Chief Chandler Corriveau said.

The road was closed between Hammond and Union streets until just after 2 p.m.

Firefighters closed Main Street in downtown Bangor to traffic for less than an hour early Monday afternoon following a fire alarm triggered by food on an apartment stove, March 23, 2022. Credit: Sawyer Loftus / BDN

Fire alarms were set off inside 65 Main St., which houses Antique Marketplace on the bottom level, as a result of food on a stove in an adjacent building, Corriveau said. 

“It was a very, very, very small fire,” he said. “This is a very large building, and even a small fire can turn bad in a hurry.”

No one was injured and there was no property damage, Corriveau said.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said the fire happened on the wrong day of the week.

Sawyer Loftus is an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News, a 2024-2025 fellow with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, and was Maine's 2023-2024 journalist of the year. Sawyer previously...

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