Two Fires Damage Hartford Apartment Buildings Over Weekend

HARTFORD, CT — City firefighters were busy over the weekend tending to two apartment complex blazes that required the attention of the state's Red Cross chapter afterwards.

On Saturday, the Hartford Fire Department was called to the Barry Square neighborhood on Webster Street for a two-alarm fire that required the Red Cross to assist more than 60 residents there.

"Multiple Firefighters were on scene to extinguish the fire in this large residential apartment building," wrote Hartford Firefighters Local 760 via social media.

No injuries were reported in that blaze.

Then, on Sunday, Hartford firefighters were called to 320 Farmington Ave. in the Asylum Hill neighborhood for an apartment building fire at that address.

The Hartford Fire Department said that blaze was in the stairwell between the second and third floors of the building and it was, initially, called in by Hartford police.

Firefighters said they were able to quickly knock down the fire and no injuries were reported.

But, the HFD said, the American Red Cross did assist two families that experienced severe damage due to the blaze — a total of eight people, including five children.

The two apartments impacted were deemed "uninhabitable" by the fire marshal's office.

For photographs of Saturday's Webster Street fire, click on this link.

For photographs of Sunday's Farmington Avenue fire, click on this link.