Dryer outside structure found to be the problem
The quick response of a Beach Club employee during the early morning hours of July 17 in Siesta Village likely prevented extensive damage at the adjacent Lobster Pot restaurant, a Sarasota County Fire Department report indicates.
The Fire Department alarm was issued at 1:04 a.m. that Thursday, the report says, after the Beach Club worker “noticed an odor of smoke” at the Lobster Pot, which stands at 5157 Ocean Blvd., and called 911.
Firefighters/medics with Station 13 on Siesta Key found that “an outside stackable washer/dryer unit … had caught fire,” the report explains. One section of the report notes “flames coming out the top” of the electrical dryer…