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Connecticut Furniture Warehouse Fire Reaches 5 Alarms
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — An official from a company whose East Hartford warehouse is the scene of a massive fire says its employees all got out safely.
Robert Orenstein, a vice president of Office Furniture Rental Alliance, says about a dozen people were inside the 50,000-square-foot building when the fire started.
Authorities sounded a fifth alarm on the fire Monday morning. Firefighters from West Hartford and Manchester were called in to help East Hartford crews battle the blaze.
Orenstein tells The Hartford Courant that employees smelled smoke around 8:55 a.m. in the building, which contains workstations, desk chairs, bookcases, chairs and basic office furniture.
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Robert Orenstein, a vice president of Office Furniture Rental Alliance, says about a dozen people were inside the 50,000-square-foot building when the fire started.
Authorities sounded a fifth alarm on the fire Monday morning. Firefighters from West Hartford and Manchester were called in to help East Hartford crews battle the blaze.
Orenstein tells The Hartford Courant that employees smelled smoke around 8:55 a.m. in the building, which contains workstations, desk chairs, bookcases, chairs and basic office furniture.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Permalink Reply by doug wehner on
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this is deffinately a fire that could get f/f hurt with all the fire load. thank god no one was hurt workers and f/f. good job
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