Bridgeport house fire displaces 9 people
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A wreath was in place Friday next to the memorial to Bridgeport firefighters Michel Baik and Lt. Steven Velasquez, at the fire station on Ocean Terrace. The firefighters died while fighting a fire on Elmwood Ave, in Bridgeport, Conn. ten years ago on July 24, 2010. Both men were assigned to Ladder Truck 11.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
BRIDGEPORT A fire has displaced six adults and three children, according to a city official.
The fire broke out on the second floor of a home located in the 1,000-block of North Avenue around 9:15 a.m. Monday, Director of Emergency Management Scott Appleby said.
with heavy rainfall, frequent clouds around lightning and dangerous gusty winds. thats now to the sth of us and we re getting a cooler drier air mass. let s look at true view and show you the lightning strike currently in this system as you can see over virginia beach. a pretty good indication of what we had to deal with the course of today. good news is skies are clearing out. we re getting partly cloudy conditions. and we are going to see cooler air in place. the details on the forecast just ahead. back to you. radar looking pretty good right now. thank you. severe storms cent tree onto a fan and trapped a mother and daughter inside. one of them did not make it out alive. fox 5 s matt ackland is working that story tonight. reporter: will, it s terribly sad. a bad accident here in college park. it all happened right around 3:30 when this that storm moved in. it moved in quickly. i m going to push into rhode island avenue there. you can see the tree that has fallen. tha