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A two-alarm fire ripped through a multi-family house in the Annex Friday, sending one woman to the hospital with burns.
The cause of the fire was unknown.
Here’s what happened, according to police Spokesman Officer Dave Hartman:
At around 4 p.m., people began calling 911 to report a fire at 95 – 97 Farren Ave.
“Many people were reporting an explosion,” Hartman said.
Firefighters from several stations responded. It took over an hour to bring the fire under control.
Police removed a woman from the building. She was injured, but conscious and alert. She was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, then transferred to the burn center at Bridgeport Hospital shortly before 5 p.m. She was in stable condition.
The woman had been in her kitchen in a first-floor apartment and was injured by the explosion.
The Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of the fire. Preliminary investigation indicated that the fire started in the kitchen and may have been accidental.
The three-story, multi-unit building was home to 10 adults and seven children, all of whom were accounted for.
The building was severely damaged by the blaze and was tentatively scheduled for demolition as early as Saturday.
Hartman called the fire “massive.”
“I haven’t seen a fire like this in well over a decade,” he said.