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Firefighters called out to brush fires

three in the West End, two of which involved controlled burnings.Service spokesman Lt. Jon Thompson said the station received a report of a brush fire at Pompano Beach Club in Southampton at 4.58 p.m.

three in the West End, two of which involved controlled burnings.

Service spokesman Lt. Jon Thompson said the station received a report of a brush fire at Pompano Beach Club in Southampton at 4.58 p.m.

A truck and a water tender responded from the Port Royal facility with six personnel and found two piles of burning tree cuttings measuring about 15 feet by 15 feet.

Lt. Thompson said it was an unattended controlled burning and the fire fighters used some 2,000 gallons of water and the help of a nearby construction site's bulldozer to extinguish it.

At 7.08 p.m. four firefighters from Port Royal responded with one vehicle to a flooding at a Riviera Estate, Southampton residence.

There they found a pipe to the water heater was leaking and there was about an inch of water throughout the entire one bedroom apartment. A water vacuum and squeegees were used to clear up the mess.

Fire personnel responded to a gas cylinder leak at Swan Brothers on Hermitage Road, Devonshire at 7.21 p.m.

They found the relief valve had been activated on a bulk liquid oxygen cylinder. They stood by while the company's owner dealt with the problem.

And at 10.17 p.m. one truck and four personnel from Port Royal Station responded to a fire of an unknown type at Overplus Lane, Sandys Parish.

They discovered a ten-foot by five-foot controlled burning which they extinguished using 450 gallons of water.