Main St. 2nd Alarm (Derby, CT) 3/22/13

DERBY, CT – At approximately 7:00 pm on March 23, 2013, the Derby Fire Department was dispatched to 130 Main Street for a structure fire. Heavy smoke was showing from two windows on the A-side of the 2-story brick apartment over commercial with reports of two occupants being trapped on the second floor. According to Derby Fire Chief Thomas Lenart Jr., one of the occupants made their way out of the blaze, but the second had to be rescued by firefighters. The fire was quickly knocked down in the second floor apartment before it could extend into the cockloft and endanger the attached structures.