Operations & Training

Firefighters Battle DE Lighthouse Blaze for Three Hours

April 24, 2020

Multiple fire companies responded to a blaze that erupted at a restaurant at the Dewey Beach lighthouse that charred and partially collapsed the building late Thursday.

By Janet Pickel

Source The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.

Firefighters from multiple fire companies battled a large blaze that broke out at a restaurant at the Dewey Beach, DE, lighthouse for three hours late Thursday.

A fire Thursday night destroyed a restaurant at the Dewey Beach lighthouse in Delaware, according to several media reports.

The fire left the outside of the lighthouse charred, the Cape Gazette reports.

According to Delaware Online, firefighters were called to the Lighthouse Restaurant on Dickinson Street around 10 p.m. and found the burning building already collapsing.

The restaurant was being renovated, WMDT says, and was supposed to open this summer.

No Injuries were reported, and fire companies were on scene for more than three hours, according to the Rehoboth Beach fire company.

The state fire marshal’s office is investigating. A cause of the fire wasn’t immediately released.

Pictures and video from the scene show the engulfed building next to the lighthouse at the bay.

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