A three-family home on Ansonia’s Howard Avenue is uninhabitable after a fire gutted its top floor Tuesday evening.
No injuries were reported.
Ansonia Fire Department Chief Scott Trembley said firefighters were dispatched to the house at 77 Howard Ave. after a 911 call about 7 p.m.
They arrived to find a rear corner of the three-story house’s third floor on fire.
“We made an aggressive interior attack,” Trembley said. “They were able to knock the fire down and confined it to two rooms.”
The rest of the home suffered extensive smoke and water damage.
No one was in the house when firefighters arrived, the chief said.
“The very first guy here did a quick search on the first and second floor, where there was no fire, and found nothing,” Trembley said. “Once they got water on the fire they searched the third floor and didn’t find anything.”
The home is owned by Manuel and Dolores Villacis, according to city land records.
About 60 firefighters from all of Ansonia’s fire companies responded to the blaze, as well as a ladder truck from Derby’s Paugasset Hook & Ladder Co. 4.
Firefighters would remain on scene to douse hotspots and do overhaul, Trembley said at the scene about 8 p.m.
It was unclear how many people live in the home. Trembley said the Red Cross would be called to help any residents displaced by the blaze.
Fire Marshal Ralph Tingley is investigating the blaze’s cause and origin.
