While three dogs were saved in last week’s apartment fire, the fate of two dogs who were on the third floor remains unclear.
The two dogs were in the third-floor apartment when the fire started around 2:30 a.m., the third-floor tenant told officials.
Officials stopped short of presuming the dogs dead — but it’s not looking good.
Seymour Fire Marshal Paul Wetowitz said officials did not find their remains in the structure. However, officials did not go through the burned structure piece by piece to locate any possible remains.
The intense fire, photos of which can be viewed here, started on an oven in the third-floor apartment.
Click the video to watch an interview with a Derby man who warned tenants about the fire.
Seymour Animal Control Officer Deb Ice said Monday no one contacted her to report that dogs are missing from the fire.
A dog on the first floor of the three-story, multi-family house was briefly separated from its owner after the fire. It has since been reunited. Two dogs from the second floor are temporarily in Ice’s care as their owners try to find a new place to live.
“Three were saved for sure,” Ice said. “Any other dogs are a mystery to me. I’m not really sure that the facts are there.”
