Overview
- Crews were dispatched around 8:30 a.m. to a two-and-a-half-story wood-frame multifamily home at 149 Sylvan Avenue, and heavy fire vented through the roof was knocked down by 8:54 a.m.
- Hoarding conditions inside the building impeded interior operations, leading firefighters to withdraw and conduct a transitional exterior attack.
- The incident was upgraded to a second alarm as crews cut the roof to ventilate heat and smoke.
- One firefighter was hospitalized with not-serious injuries related to exhaustion, and officials reported no civilian injuries as the house appeared unoccupied.
- Waterbury police detectives and fire investigators secured the scene, brought in an arson-detection dog with a warrant required to enter the home, and kept the nearby road closed late Friday morning.