Crime & Safety

Report: Lightning Strike Causes House Fire in Killingworth

Haddam firefighters called in as mutual aid to respond to a fire at 24 Cow Pen Hill Road in Killingworth.

 

Firefighters from Killingworth and surrounding towns are on the scene of a house fire at 24 Cow Pen Hill Road

According to scanner chatter, the fire broke out in the garage of the two-and-a-half story home.

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@GeorgeRoelofsen, a Killingworth volunteer firefighter and camerman for News 8, tweeted the following at 8:37 a.m.: Structure Fire, Killingworth...24 Cow Pen Hill Rd. Lightening strike. First arriving unit reports flames showing.

Mutual aid from and North Madison has been called in to help. There are no reports of injuries and it has not been confirmed that the cause of the fire was a lightning strike.

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