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    Sunday, May 05, 2024

    Fire displaces residents of New London multi-family home

    New London — Firefighters extinguished a bedroom fire in a multi-family home at 56 Lincoln Ave. Monday afternoon that fire officials said houses a second-floor day care operation.

    No injuries were reported.

    The fire was reported at 4:09 p.m. School crossing guard Diane Fisher said she saw smoke coming from the first-floor window of the building facing Connecticut Avenue.

    “The next thing you know I saw flames and I said ‘Oh my God it’s on fire,” Fisher said.

    She called 911.

    Firefighters arrived to find everyone in the home had safely evacuated. A search turned up no further occupants, New London Fire Battalion Chief Mark Waters said.

    Waters said an aggressive interior attack by firefighters helped confine the fire to one first-floor room. There is smoke and water damage throughout the home, however. At least three people were displaced.

    The fire marshal’s office is investigating the cause of the fire.

    City property records list the home as a two-family, built in 1890, and owned by Robert M. Catalino.

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