The Chapel Hill Fire Department was on the scene of a fire Wednesday morning.

The fire was at 920 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, in a small office park.

Battalion Chief Jeff Cabe says the owners of a dentist office came in to open up and were greeted by a large amount of smoke.

“By the time we were dispatched and we got on scene, there was a lot of smoke left in the building,” he says. “The damage was pretty significant throughout the main portions of the hallway and the building. But the fire was out.”

Cabe says that is an unusual scenario: for a fire to have, apparently, burned itself out by the time the fire department is called.

He adds the cold weather likely did not play a factor in the fire.

“I would think weather probably didn’t have anything to do with it, based on the nature of where the fire [was]; the fire was in the center of the building,” he says. “My guess is, because it’s the heating season, that when the fire started it shut the heating system down.”

Cabe says the heating system shutting off would have cut off the main supply of air to the fire.

The battalion chief adds fire marshals were investigating the scene, as of Wednesday morning, and were working to determine the cause and origin of the fire.

“With it being a fire that burned itself out, it may take a little bit longer,” he says. “That’s sort of an unusual situation.”

No injuries were reported in the fire.

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