New London Fire Displaces Eight

A woman has been treated for smoke inhalation and a house is uninhabitable after an early morning fire Sunday at a New London rooming house that displaced eight people.

It took crews about an hour to put out a fire that broke out at a rooming house on Jay Street in New London at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

Firefighters helped one occupant out of the building who suffered from smoke inhalation, according to Battalion Chief Edward Sargent. The woman was treated at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and has since been released.

Firefighters from the New London Fire Department and the Naval Submarine Base in Groton responded, he told The Day.

Eight residents have been displaced by the fire, according to Sargent, and they were taken to the city's senior center. The house had the capacity for 13 people, but it wasn't fully occupied when the fire happened.

The damage to the home has rendered it uninhabitable.

Sargent told The Day the fire is not related to one about a half-mile away on Jay Street last week that was found to have been deliberately set.

The New London fire marshal's office is investigating the cause of the fire.

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