KENT – There were anxious moments at the Putnam Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Ludingtonville Road in Kent Monday when smoke began to fill a hallway in the sprawling complex.
Staff immediately called 911 around 9 a.m. and dispatchers sounded an alarm for the Lake Carmel Fire Department reporting a fire in a patient’s third floor room.
Firefighters under the command of Chief Justyn Lewis rushed to the scene and extinguished the blaze located in a ceiling fan.
Facility nurses and administrators escorted patients at the home to an adjoining wing while crews were on the scene.
No injuries were reported.
Assisting were members of the Kent Police Department, Putnam Bureau of Emergency Services along with members of the Carmel, Brewster and Patterson Fire Departments, Kent EMS squad and an Empress Paramedic.
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