2 injured in Derby structure fire Friday evening (updated)

By Neal McNamara
nmcnamara@newhavenregister.com / Twitter: @Neal_McNamara

DERBY – A fire Friday night at a building along Main Street sent a man and his wife to Griffin Hospital.

Derby Fire Chief Tom Lenart Jr. said that the fire began around 7:08 p.m. in the front of an apartment on the second floor of 130 Main Street.

Once on scene, it took firefighters about 10 minutes to knock down the blaze. Firefighters from Derby, Shelton, and Seymour responded to the scene.

The Derby fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire, Lenart said.
The two-story brick building has two apartments on the second floor. The bottom floor is the Imperial Liquor store. The apartment where the fire started sustained fire, smoke, and water damage, Lenart said. The second apartment and the liquor store sustained water and smoke damage.

Lenart said that the building’s fire alarm was working, and alerted the occupants of the apartment and the liquor store that there was a fire.

Griffin Hospital could not immediately provide the conditions of the man and his wife.