Crews Put Out House Fire in Hartford

Firefighters battled a house fire in Hartford just before the snow and wind began to pick up early Sunday morning.

Durant Cupe awoke to see flames coming out of his next door neighbor's basement at 287 Blue Hills Avenue early in the morning. He called 911, but he said it didn't take long for the fire to spread.

"Very scary," Cupe said. "I didn't think it was that bad, but it got to be really bad."

When NBC Connecticut arrived shortly after 4 a.m. there were flames shooing through the roof of the home and firefighters with two ladder trucks were battling the blaze.

A woman and two children live in the house, according to Cupe. No one was home at the time of the fire, according to Hartford Deputy Fire Chief Patrick Jones.

"The people who live there, I don't think were there," Cupe said. "What I did was after I called 911 I went over to bang on the door to find out if anyone was in there, and nobody answered."

Firefighters had Cupe and his fiancée evacuate their home as a precaution.

The snow was blowing a lot just before 6 a.m., but it didn't pick up until firefighters already had the fire under control.  But Jones said that the biggest issue the crews faced was that the sidewalk wasn't shoveled in front of the house.

Crews contained the fire and kept it from spreading, but they were still on scene at 5:46 a.m. putting out hot spots.

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