Fire at Denny’s auto body in Selden, authorities say

Suffolk County police are investigating a fire at an auto body shop in Selden on Saturday morning, according to an email from the agency that said the cause of the fire is “believed to be noncriminal.”

The fire occurred at Denny & Sons Custom Auto Body on Middle Country Road in Selden just after 8 a.m. A spokesman from Suffolk Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services said first responders from “Centereach, Coram, Farmingdale, Ronkonkoma, Setauket, Holtsville, Terryville, and Port Jefferson Ambulance,” responded to the scene.

No injuries were reported and everyone had exited the building before 8:15 a.m., according to a Suffolk County Police Department spokesperson.

Police shut down the adjacent Route 25 as people were evacuating the building, and then reopened the roadway at 10:09 a.m., the Suffolk police spokesperson told Newsday.

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.