Fire Forces 2 Families From Manchester Home

Two women and two children are without a home after flames ripped through their three-story house on Park Street in Manchester on Wednesday afternoon, according to the fire department.

Fire officials said a woman living on the first floor of the house at 11-13 Park Street discovered a fire on her porch around 4:30 p.m. She made it out safely and called 911.

Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke, fire and intense heat throughout the building as flames spread from the porch. They searched the second-floor unit to make sure no one was trapped and had the flames under control shortly after 5 p.m., according to the fire department.

Two Manchester departments responded and crews from East Hartford, Bolton, Glastonbury and South Windsor provided mutual aid.

No firefighters or residents were hurt, but the home sustained heavy damage to all three floors, forcing the four people who live there, including a woman with two children, to stay elsewhere.

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