Photos/Story by York Fire Department

YORK, Maine -- A firefighter drove a smoking oil delivery truck out of its burning storage bay at the Estes Oil company on Route One in York on Friday morning, averting a potentially disastrous situation.

No one was injured in the fire, which broke out around 8:20 a.m. at the rear of the building and is not considered suspicious. Damage was estimated at around $250,000, Fire Chief Chris Balentine said.

Smoke and water damaged the front offices but they survived in pretty good shape, but the garage area is gone. 5 other businesses in the large 100x300' woodframe complex were temporarily closed but sustained very little damage. The bulk of the fire was contianed to the oil company portion of the building.

Firefighters passed office computers and boxloads of paperwork out windows to waiting employees. This resulted in all of the company records being saved. The owner spoke of the community response and support he had already received in the brief span of a few hours earlier that morning.

In addition to the York Village and York Beach Fire Departments, firefighters from Ogunquit, Kittery, Kittery Point, Eliot and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard departments reponded to the call for mutual aid.