Rooftop Fire At Fairfield Apartment Complex [VIDEO]

FAIRFIELD, CT — Several residents were temporarily displaced by an overnight rooftop fire at a Fairfield apartment complex.

Emergency personnel received a report just before 10 p.m. Wednesday about a blaze on the deck at the Alto Fairfield Metro apartments in the 1400 block of Kings Highway, according to a fire department news release. Firefighters arrived within minutes and found smoke coming from the roof and people evacuating after a resident pulled an alarm.

Crews found toxic smoke on the sixth-floor deck and discovered the fire was hidden inside a decorative section of a fireplace, requiring first responders to use power saws and hand tools to get to the blaze and extinguish the flames, the news release said.

During the response, several apartments suffered water damage, and residents of five of the units had to relocate overnight, according to the news release. No one was injured.

More than 30 firefighters from Fairfield and Bridgeport battled the blaze. Fairfield’s building department and fire prevention division will be investigating the origin and cause of the fire.