Fast-moving fire destroys Frank’s Auto in Albion
Frank Strasburger has owned business at Route 31 location since 1980
Photos by Tom Rivers
ALBION – A huge fire spewing dark smoke at Frank’s Auto broke out at about 8 a.m. today at 14040 Route 31.
Frank Strasburger has owned the business repairing cars and selling used vehicles since 1980.
He said no one was in the building at the time of the fire.
Two people in a neighboring residence were evacuated from their home. The dark smoke didn’t seem to be having an impact on the two state prisons or The Villages of Orleans nursing home. No one there needed to be evacuated.
Many fire departments joined Albion in battling the blaze. It did not spread to the Root Brothers cabbage facility next door.
Fire investigators are on the scene. No cause has been determined yet.
The fire has closed a section of Route 31 from King Street to Gaines Basin Road.
