A doorframe is all that remains of a house that collapsed Thursday morning during a two-alarm fire in New Haven.
The two-story house was an investment for Louis Lopez and his mother, Lopez said. It has been reduced to ashes.
Fire broke out around 4 a.m. at 85 Lombard St. Neighbors said they heard a loud explosion and felt the heat from the fire at the other end of the street. The siding of a neighboring house was almost completely burned.
Lopez said his mother was not living in the house. She moved to Wallingford during construction on the home.
Firefighters responded in two minutes but the house was destroyed by the time they arrived.
An explosion caused the building to collapse, said Chief Michael Grant.
“It has no water, no gas, no light, no nothing. I don't understand how it could blow up like that,” Lopez said.
Firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire.
No one was hurt. Firefighters said the building collapsed.
