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Brush fires that swept through woods and open land in Middletown Tuesday and Wednesday have been brought under control, a spokesman for the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said.
Crews continue to battle two brush fires in Middletown Wednesday morning after the first fire Tuesday afternoon grew into a second one.
More than 100 firefighters responded to help extinguish the flames as a second brush fire ignited about 2 miles away at the Middletown-Haddam line early.
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About 100 firefighters have been battling wind-driven brush fires that consumed almost 300 acres of woods and open land in Middletown Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two children and their grandparents were rescued from a burning home on Freeman Road near a massive brush fire, Chief James Trzaski said.