CHAUTAUQUA – Volunteer firefighters from the Chautauqua Fire Department as well as Sheriff deputies were called to a fire on Potter Road early Monday morning.

Chautauqua Town Supervisor Don Emhart, who is also the chief of the Dewittville Fire Department, said he personally did not go to the fire but was aware of the call, which was reported around 6:30 a.m. “I’ve had verbal complaints about the residents out there … It’s an extension of Beaujean Road, basically,” he said.

For more than a year, the town has heard complaints from neighbors who live on Beaujean Road near the Chautauqua Lake Central School. Emhart said although the two properties are far apart, he has been told that some of the people who have resided on Beaujean Road have also been staying at the Porter Road residence.

Neighbors have called 7127 Beaujean Road a “commune” due to the number of people who live on the property in campers and other outbuildings. The town board is in the process of taking the owners to court due to code violations.

Emhart said he was unaware of any illegal activity on the property, that the majority of the complaints he’s heard were due to the number of people living there. Current code officer Frank Watson has not been involved in the property, as he has with Beaujean Road.

County Emergency Services Director Noel Guttman said he was informed that it was a camper or mobile home on the property that caught fire. The property has had complaints lodged against it in the past for illegal burning, which is part of the reason why Sheriff deputies responded as well.

A call to the Sheriff’s Office seeking comment was not immediately returned Monday.