Crime & Safety
WATCH: Concord Fire Tackles Norwich Street Blaze
UPDATED: Teams were sent to the South End home this morning.
CONCORD, NH - Concord Fire and Rescue teams were called to a home fire in the South End on Dec. 12, 2015.
The call came in around 9:30 a.m. at 16 Norwich St. in the South End. Three engines and two ambulances showed up at the scene for a blaze at a vacant single-family Ranch which was built in 1968.
Chief Dan Andrus said in a statement this afternoon that dispatchers received multiple calls reporting a large plume of smoke in the area behind Wesley United Methodist Church before finding the fire on Norwich Street. The fire was knocked down at just before 10 a.m. Units remained on scene until early afternoon extinguishing hot spots to assure the fire would not rekindle. Eighteen personnel on three engines, a tower ladder, two ambulances, and the shift commander responded to the scene.
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There were no injuries and the cause of the fire remains under investigation, Andrus noted, and no mutual aid units were needed.
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