The site of Thursday's fire.
The Red Cross is finding homes for five families displaced by a Thursday night fire in the Fair Haven Heights neighborhood.
Firefighters responded to a call for the fire that came in at 11:07 p.m. at 179 Quinnipiac Ave. They arrived to find flames shooting out of five windows on the second floor, according to Assistant Fire Chief Daniel Coughlin.
They got the fire under control in 42 minutes. Ten people in all from the five families who lived in the multi-family house escaped without injuries, Coughlin said. No firefighters were injured either.
The fire spread to the attic and into the roof. The first floor sustained water damage.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The building is part of a four-building complex owned by an affiliate of Mandy Management.
This marks the second fire in a little over a month at a Mandy property. On March 8, a fire at one of the company’s apartment complexes on Blake Street displaced 32 people.
