BRISTOL, Conn. — A person was forced to jump from a second-story window to escape a fire in a two-family home in Bristol on Friday afternoon.
Bristol Fire Chief Richard Hart said fire crews got to the house on South Street just before 2:30 p.m. and observed a heavy fire.
"Companies made a push through the rear of the building to try and make it tenable for anybody that was inside the building," Hart said.
Initial reports from the incident said one person was trapped and got out by jumping out of the window. EMS on the scene treated that person.
Hart said nobody was injured and everyone made it out of the building safely.
The fire was confined to the home's front half but has been deemed uninhabitable. Crews were able to get the fire under control in about 45 minutes but faced several challenges.
"We did have a prior to our arrival a house service wire came off the building it was across the road so we had to be mindful of that so no one stepped on that wire. The volume of fire we encountered upon arrival and also there was somewhat of a hoarding situation in the building," Hart said.
Suheidi Rivera, who was on the first floor of the house, told FOX61 she was falling asleep, saw smoke, and ran out. She said the fire started and spread very quickly.
"All I see was dark and fire and I came out yelling, yelling, yelling calling my son come out son it’s fire, it’s fire," she said. "I went through the middle of the fire and it went so fast I don’t even know."
The cause of the fire is under investigation. The American Red Cross will be assisting one family that was impacted - three adults and one child.
"Nothing, nothing. Just my phone that I had next to me. I lose everything, everything," Rivera said.
Gaby Molina is a reporter and anchor at FOX61 News. She can be reached at mmolina@fox61.com. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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