West St. 2nd Alarm (New Haven, CT) 1/14/18
NEW HAVEN, CT - At approximately 1:30am on January 14, 2018, the New Haven Fire Department was dispatched to 159 West Street for a reported house on fire. The first arriving unit transmitted a 2nd alarm on arrival due to heavy fire conditions on the second floor of a 2 1/2-story wood frame home that was already extending to the two adjacent homes next to it. In all, 20 people, 8 of them children, were displaced due to the fire into the frigid temps that were in the teens. CT Transit provided a bus to act as a warming station at the scene.
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