A fire broke out in a fireplace at 2565 Main St. in Lake Placid early Tuesday morning. Damage can be seen on the front right corner of the building under the roof. (Enterprise photo — Sydney Emerson)

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid firefighters battled a structure fire on Main Street Tuesday morning that started in the fireplace of a rented room.

The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department responded to the structure fire at 2565 Main St. at 1:03 a.m. with three trucks and 20 members, with mutual aid support from the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department and with the Bloomingdale Volunteer Fire Department standing by.

The fire started in the fireplace of a rented room on the building’s upper floor. The renters started a fire in the fireplace around 9 p.m., according to the LPVFD. The people renting the room woke up at around 12:30 a.m. to a room full of heavy smoke and called for help. According to LPVFD Chief Mike St. Louis, someone else also called in the fire, telling firefighters that they could see flames from the outside of the building.

When trucks arrived, a “trash line” hose — which comes off the front of the truck for quick water attacks — was used initially before other members arrived. Once there, firefighters got inside the room, where they broke down parts of the ceiling and wall above and around the fireplace. They also dropped chimney bombs — bags of a dry chemical extinguishment agent — and cut several holes in the outside of the building to apply water directly to the inside of the wall where the fire was spreading.

St. Louis said the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation, though he suspects the renters did nothing wrong. He said the fire was probably the result of a hole or gap in the metal chimney pipe, and that things just got too hot. There were no injuries.

“We had a good knockdown,” St. Louis said.

Members were back in service at 5:05 a.m. The owner of the building could not immediately be reached by deadline Tuesday.