Eleven people are displaced after a car fire spread to a Hamden home Saturday morning and firefighters evacuated the residents from the home.
Firefighters responded to a car fire at 67 George Street in Hamden at about 3:12 a.m. on Saturday, also receiving several 911 calls that the house was on fire. When they arrived the car was up in flames and had spread to the vinyl siding on the two-family house and "electrical service" at the home, fire officials said.
Firefighters evacuated the families from the house and put the fire out in a few minutes, according to fire officials.
United Illuminating cut the power in the area and the home has been deemed uninhabitable until it is upgraded with new electrical installments because its electrical service was compromised in the blaze, posing a safety risk, officials said.
The 11 people displaced are staying with friends and family in the mean time.
No one was injured.
The Hamden fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.
