Hamden Fire Department
Firefighters rescued a 44-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man Thursday from an apartment-building fire.
Hamden firefighters arrived on the scene of the fire at 667 Mix Ave. at 8:44 a.m., according to a release from Fire Marshal Brian Dolan.
They saw the woman trapped, “sitting on a second-floor window sill with heavy smoke coming from the window,” Dolan wrote. “The crew immediately deployed a ladder” and rescued her. She is being treated for burn injuries at Bridgeport Hospital’s Connecticut Burn Center.
They found the man in an interior stairwell, and got him out. He was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation.
HFD
The fire started on a kitchen stovetop after the 44-year-old woman fell asleep after turning on the stove to cook breakfast, Deputy Fire Marshal Nelson Hwang determined. That set off smoke detectors. She and other occupants safely got out, but then returned inside to “gather personal belongings,” at which point she “became trapped in the bedroom” until her rescue.
The release ends with three recommendations:
• “Never leave cooking unattended.”
• “Immediately evacuate a fire condition in the home.”
• “Never re-enter a building to retrieve personal belongings.”