Howe Avenue Fire
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Staff | Jan 8, 2014 8:12 am
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Echo Hose Hook and Ladder Co. 1 announced Tuesday that a “Howe Avenue Relief Fund” has been formally established at Webster Bank.
The fund was started after the firehouse was inundated with donations of food, clothes, gift cards and money to help almost 30 people who were displaced after a major fire in a large building on Howe Avenue early Monday.
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‘Howe Avenue Relief Fund Started At Webster Bank’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Jan 7, 2014 4:02 pm
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Shelton resident Dee Tutka saw a Facebook post Tuesday morning from the city’s Echo Hose Hook & Ladder fire company asking for donations to benefit the dozens of residents displaced by the Sunday night fire that leveled half a block of downtown Shelton.
By 10 a.m., Tutka was at the firehouse on Coram Avenue helping to sort through a mountain of clothing that filled the building’s meeting room.
She wasn’t alone.
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‘Valley Responds—And How—In Wake Of Shelton Fire’
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Ethan Fry | Jan 6, 2014 5:28 pm
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John Quick woke up to go to the bathroom about midnight Monday and saw flashing lights outside his window. Then smoke began to fill his apartment.It got worse as he tried to get out of 434 Howe Ave.
“It was so bad you couldn’t see, it was so thick,” said Quick, who lived on the third floor of the building reduced to rubble by a massive fire overnight.
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‘UPDATE: Fire Levels Half A Block In Shelton’
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Eugene Driscoll | Jan 6, 2014 1:17 pm
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Update 8:30 a.m.:A total of five people were sent to the hospital early Monday after a fire leveled a downtown building, according to Shelton Assistant Fire Chief Nick Verdicchio.
Details weren’t available about their conditions, he said, but none of the injuries were life-threatening.
Firefighters rescued a total of 27 people from the fire, he said, including at least two by ladder.
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‘Fire, Building Collapse On Howe Avenue In Shelton’
