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At 5:12 pm on Saturday, 1/27/2024 the Taftville Fire Department with Norwich’s Engine 3, Truck 1 and Battalion 1 were dispatched to 74 Ox Hill Road for a house fire. Dispatch was taking multiple calls and transmitted the working fire which added Yantic and the Mohegan Tribal FAST.

Car 2 arrived at 5:16 reporting fire showing from the second floor of a 1.5 story wood frame residential house. Engine 3 arrived at 5:18 and stretched a 1.75” hose line through the front door, up the stairs and to the right where they found 2 rooms burning. Engine 3 driver was able to get his own hydrant while Engine 21 laid in from a different hydrant to establish a secondary water supply. Engine 21 then stretched a backup line to the second floor. Truck 1 threw 2 ground ladders and went to the roof with a Yantic Firefighter to perform vertical ventilation.

Engine 22 stretched another line from Engine 21 and took it to the roof in the rear. Engine 31 then stretched a third line from Engine 21. Tower 25 did overhaul and Rescue 3 filled air cylinders with their cascade. The Occum Fire Department covered Taftville and the Norwich Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.