At approximately 12:50 pm on Friday afternoon, first responders from four towns responded to a fully engulfed house fire at 117 New York Ave. in Oak Bluffs.
Acrid, heavy smoke filled the air as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze, which appeared to be contained by about 1:30. Firefighters and EMTs from Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, Tisbury, and West Tisbury responded to the call.
There was apparently no one inside the house when first responders arrived.
One firefighter was taken to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital for smoke inhalation.
The ranch house, at the corner of Chickawaukee Street and New York Avenue, was one of two structures on the lot. A small sign identified the property as the “Martha’s Vineyard Racquet Club Resort.”
The home was built in 1950, according to the Dukes County Assessor’s database. The owner, Claudette Robinson-Niles, had apparently walked to downtown Oak Bluffs and was not in the building at the time, according to Oak Bluffs Police Chief Erik Blake.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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