One person was taken to a hospital and left displaced following an apartment fire in Naugatuck on Sunday.
Crews responded to a second-floor apartment at a four-family building at 19 Hillside Ave. around 5 p.m. when a fire alarm in the structure went off and firefighters received the report of an odor of smoke, according to the Naugatuck Fire Department.
Firefighters found a small fire in the apartment and removed one person, fire officials said. The individual was taken in an ambulance to a hospital.
“While the fire itself was relatively small, fires in this type of building can quickly spread through the structure,” the fire department said in a statement. “Fires grow fast and rapidly produce toxic smoke.”
Fire officials credited the building’s smoke detectors with alerting the residents of the other apartments who called 911.
The apartment where the flames broke out was left uninhabitable, fire officials said. Everyone else in the building was able to return to their homes.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
The Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department and Beacon Hose Co. No. 1 provided station coverage while Naugatuck crews were at the scene.