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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Baby grand piano among items lost in fire on Grays Airport Road

Lake County firefighters respond to shed fire on Gray's Airport Road.
Lake County firefighters responded to a shed fire on Gray’s Airport Road.

Lake County firefighters responded to a Thursday morning fire on Grays Airport Road in Lady Lake.

Crews arrivedĀ  to find a storage shed behind a house fully involved with flames.

The crews worked quickly to keep the fire from spreading to the nearby home, but the shed was a total loss.

Firefighters found the shed to be packed full of items ranging from work tools to a baby grand piano. Paint cans stubbornly continued to burn as the firefighters were putting out the blaze. Foam was eventually used to extinguish the paint and other chemicals burning.

The cause of the fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal.

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