Kitchen Fire Extinguished At Hamden Apartment Complex

HAMDEN, CT — No injuries were reported in an apartment fire Sunday afternoon in Hamden, according to fire officials. At about 3:35 p.m. on Dec. 16, crews responded to a fire alarm at the Regency Hills Apartments, located at 302 Pine Rock Avenue. Several residents also began calling 911 to report that there was smoke in the building.

The first-arriving crew (Engine 2) arrived on the scene at 3:38 p.m. and reported smoke coming from a second-floor window.

“Engine 2 stretched a hose line down a hallway and forced entry into unit B12,” fire officials wrote in a press release. “They encountered a heavy smoke condition in the apartment and active fire in the kitchen area. The fire was quickly brought under control and crews checked for fire extension in the walls of apartment B12 and the unit directly above B12. The resident of the apartment was not home at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported.”

Fire Marshal Brian Dolan determined that the “oven and one stovetop burner had been left on by the resident who had left the apartment shortly before the fire,” according to the press release. The fire spread from the stovetop to the kitchen cabinets immediately above the oven range.

Hamden Fire Department responding companies included E2, E3, T1, Sq1, R2, C1, and C3.

Photo credit: Hamden Fire Department

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