City firefighters from the Whitney Avenue firehouse were out fighting a fire on Nicoll Street Friday evening when the call came in that there was a fire at 350 Whitney Ave. — their firehouse.
Many of the firefighters, who were just finishing on Nicoll Street, which was reported at 5:47 pm., rushed back and, accompanied by colleagues from other firehouses, fought the fire in their own firehouse, Fire Chief John A. Alston Jr. said at the scene.
A city police officer driving by the firehouse at 6:09 p.m. noticed smoke and flames on the second floor and used his police radio to call it in, Alston said, as firefighters — many of them from the Whitney Avenue firehouse — cleaned up after the fire was out.