Firefighters and San Juan municipal emergency management crews put out a fire in a three-story building near Plaza de Armas in Old San Juan around midday on Saturday, November 7, the Puerto Rico Fire Bureau’s press spokesperson said. The fire, whose cause is still unknown, started around 11:00 AM in the building next to the SuperMax supermarket and Marshalls.
It is now in the ventilation and cooling stage
It had been extinguished by about 12:20 PM. "It is now in the ventilation and cooling stage," said Rosario, the Fire Bureau spokesperson. The structure houses a business on the first level called "the poet’s passage" and residences on the other two levels, she said. No one was injured or affected by the flames or smoke.
Units from the San Juan Fire Bureau, the Hato Rey Special Operations Division and San Juan Emergency Management were at the scene.