Eleven people were rescued from a five-story apartment building in New Haven where a three-alarm fire broke out on Tuesday.
Crews responded to the building on Chapel Street at 11:22 a.m. on the report of a fire and found that the third floor was burning, according to Dan Coughlin, acting chief of the New Haven Fire Department.
Coughlin said three people in the building were rescued from “imminent danger” and eight more victims were rescued from other areas of the building. A third alarm was called in before the fire was brought under control just before 12:40 p.m.
According to Coughlin, 22 people were evaluated at the scene. None of them were taken to a hospital.
Coughlin said officials expected a “large amount” of displacements but did not have an “exact count” in the afternoon hours.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.