Firefighters Extinguish Brush Blaze In Southbury

SOUTHBURY, CT — Firefighters dealt with a brush fire Monday afternoon. Southbury firefighters were dispatched at 3:10 p.m. to investigate a report of heavy white smoke in the area of Lantern Park North.

First arriving units reported a large and expanding brush fire. Crews battled the fire from three locations including off Fox Run Drive.

"Mutual aid from Oxford, Riverside, Sandy Hook, Woodbury, and Middlebury provided valuable assistance in extinguishing the fire," Southbury fire wrote in a Facebook post. "Our appreciation goes out to them all."