This apartment fire was reported by off-duty Firefighter Kyle Houser, who was in the Midtown News Store, below the apartment, after he smelled smoke in the store. Photographs by Retired Firefighter Rich Gillespie [wonderplugin_gridgallery id="3"]

Off-duty Stamford Firefighter Kyle Houser was picking up a soda at the Midtown News Store when he smelled smoke and called 911.  He then alerted an occupant of an adjacent apartment above Midtown News of the danger and evacuated him. Kyle is a firefighter at East Side Fire Station (Shippan).   Way to go Kyle! [...]

The Stamford, Turn of River and Belltown Fire Departments were dispatched to a reported fire in a house.   The caller reported that everybody was out of the house.  SFD Engine 8 was the first Engine to arrive on the scene and found a two and a half story, wood frame residential home with a [...]

Station 2 firefighters were the first to arrive at 9 Woodland Ave for a reported structure fire. Firefighters found fire showing from third floor so they stretched 2 " hand line through front door to third floor. Upon reaching third floor rear apartment, only a slight smoke condition was noticed in the room. Firefighters pull [...]

Published in the Stamford Advocate on September 3, 2014... A fire tore through a large home in North Stamford early Wednesday, gutting nearly the entire structure. Firefighters were called to 25 Bittersweet Lane at about 12:30 a.m. after neighbors heard explosions and saw a fireball engulfing the rear of the three level brick home, Stamford Fire [...]

(Stamford, CT) – At approximately 15 minutes past midnight on Wednesday morning September 3, 2014, Central Fire Dispatch for the City of Stamford began receiving multiple telephone calls from neighbors next to #25 Bittersweet Ln reporting a huge fire.  Neighbors at #15 Bittersweet Ln reported that the home next door was fully engulfed in flame [...]

(Stamford, CT) – At 12:31 the Stamford Fire Department, Stamford EMS and Stamford Police Department were dispatched to the area of Long Island Sound near Ocean Drive North for a boater in distress. Engine 4, Rescue 1, Medic 3, the on duty Deputy Chief and a Safety Officer arrived  on the beach in the area [...]

Stamford family, dogs escape house fireA power strip with too many appliances plugged into it was the cause of a minor residential fire in a two-family home on Noble Street on Sunday night, fire officials said. Firefighters were called to 42 Noble St. by the homeowners when they returned home at 7:13 p.m. via Stamfordadvocate

Stamford man ticketed in New Year's morning accidentA 49-year-old Stamford man suffered minor injuries early Wednesday morning when he apparently lost control of his sport utility vehicle and tumbled into the side of a Tresser Boulevard office building. Stamford Fire & Rescue firefighters used hydraulic tools, cables and saws to free Curtis Hawkins of Severance [...]