Early on the morning of November 13, 1983, a three-alarm explosion and fire occurred at the Polycast Chemical Plant on Southfield Avenue. The fire took 48 firefighters and more than ninety minutes to bring the fire under control and caused the evacuation of nearby neighborhoods. One employee and six Stamford [...]
A Stamford father of seven, suffered minor burns on his arms and legs on the morning of February 26, 1984. He was trying to carry a mattress to the outside that had caught fire. The seven children were unharmed, but the residential unit suffered signifiant fire damage. Ursula Place
A Forklift punctured an aerosol can which leaked and quickly found an ignition source, sparking a chain reaction of explosions and fire inside the tractor trailer parked at the Clairol building on Harbor View Avenue. The forklift operator suffered minor injuries, but the trailer was completely destroyed.
Employees had to drag scorched drapery and carried singed flower baskets from the charred interior of the Leo P Gallagher funeral home, following a two-alarm fire that caused considerable damage. Officials said they suspected that the building had been broken into before the blaze was discovered. Twenty-five Stamford Fire fighters [...]
Stamford firefighters responded to 65 Prospect Street for a report of an activated fire alarm sounding in an apartment on the 7th floor. On arrival, firefighters determined the alarm was sounding in Apartment 7B. They quickly gained entry to the apartment and found a fire in the bedroom that was [...]
A one-alarm structure fire at 2010 hours on January 14, 1985 left seven residents homeless. The fire apparently started in a first floor storage room of the store, but quickly spread to the upper residential floors of 99 Manhattan Street. Nobody was injured in the fire and a dog was [...]
A fire damage in an old New Haven railroad passenger car at the Stamford railroad yard at Jefferson and Cherry Street on March 7, 1985. The car, owned by Conrail, burned for less than an hour, fueled by copying machine ink and paper. The fire began at 7:15 PM. Photographer: [...]
Tom Mardi (left) and Bobby Morales (Right)
A fire fighter from the Stamford Fire Department checks out the stairs where is suspicious fire began at 59 Lafayette Street. Six families evacuated the three-story house when it was realized that smoke had filled the structure. There were no injuries. Photographer: Tom Ryan Lafayette Street
A two-alarm fire riped through the building that once served as the old Stamford Town Hall. The 155 year-old building. which served as the Stamford Town Hall between 1830 and 1867, found itself in in the middle of a battle between historic preservation and urban redevelopment. The building had 10 [...]
