Tag: fire
Blow torch causes minor fire at Chemtura building
NAUGATUCK – Smoke poured out of an Elm Street building under renovation Tuesday when contractors using a blow torch to remove caulking around a...
Fire company garners grant
BEACON FALLS – When voters go to the polls March 1, they’ll have one less item to consider. Thanks to a grant from the...
Borough salon, open 1 year, charred by fire
NAUGATUCK — On March 11, Sherri Cole celebrated the one-year anniversary of her salon’s opening.
“This is all from scratch,” she said, pointing out amenities...
One dead in Prospect structure fire
PROSPECT — State police and the Prospect Volunteer Fire Department reported one death in a Wednesday-morning structure fire at a 62 Summit Road home.
The victim’s identity has not yet been released, and the cause of the blaze is still pending investigation from the Connecticut State Police and Fire Marshal.
Prospect Mayor and Assistant Fire Chief Bob Chatfield said the call came in at 7:11, and firefighters were on the scene at 7:12.
When they arrived, he said, smoke was seeping from windows, doors, and through shingles on the roof; it wasn’t until a window gave and the flame was thus oxygenated that it really erupted.
About fifty Prospect firefighters battled the inferno, many of them new members for whom this was their first major call. All told, Fire Chief Marty Lautenschlager said, it took them about 45 minutes to extinguish the fire, and no one was injured.
Still no arrest in bakery blazes
BEACON FALLS — An early, Friday-morning fire at a local bakery is under investigation, after another bakery in Monroe owned by the same person...
