08/25/2014 - Just before 2200 hours on the evening of Monday, August 25, 2014 the Plympton Fire Department responded to a reported building fire at 59 Parsonage Road. Companies arrived to find a well involved vacant barn. A second alarm was requested bringing mutual aid from Carver, Halifax to the scene and an engine from Kingston to cover the fire station. Crews stretched multiple hand lines and established a water supply utilizing a tanker shuttle system. The vacant building was fully involved and collapsed to the ground within a half hour. An initial report of two people fleeing the scene of the fire produced two suspects that were detained by the Plympton Police Department, not far from the incident scene. Crews were on-scene into the early morning hours of the following morning overhauling and extinguishing hot spots. The cause of the fire is under investigation but may be considered suspicious, with another suspicious fire being reported in the nearby town of Middleborough earlier in the evening.
