Bridgeport Firefighters Battle Massive Blaze
#Bridgeport, CT -- Sept. 11, 2014 - A massive, four-alarm blaze burned for hours and destroyed two buildings Thursday evening. Firefighters responded to the 2100 block of Seaview Avenue and encountered heavy fire in an industrial building. A thick black smoke plume could be seen for miles into the night. As the fire burned out of control, nearly every firefighter in the city responded. Incident commanders called the Fairfield and Stratford fire departments for mutual aid. As the fire grew in intensity and spread to a second structure, crews from the Trumbull, Westport and Norwalk departments responded to assist as well. Every few minutes, an explosion inside one of the buildings would send a huge fireball about a hundred feet…
