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Firefighters rescue six people during fire in Hartford

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Firefighters rescued six people from a fire in Hartford early Thursday morning.

Firefighters rescued six people from a fire in Hartford early Thursday morning.

Firefighters responded to 393 Franklin Ave., a multifamily building with four apartments, a grocery store and a vacant business just after 2:30 a.m. and heavy fire from the first floor was extending to the second and third floors, fire officials said.

Firefighters used ladders to rescue two people from the third floor and they rescued four more residents who were on the stairs.

The fire went to a second alarm and crews knocked down the blaze.

One resident was taken to the hospital to be evaluated and one firefighter was treated at the scene for possible heat exhaustion but was not taken to the hospital.

Miguel Franco Jr. owns the building and said they were worried about the tenants and was relieved that they are safe.

He said he knows the tenants well because they work for his family’s Peruvian restaurant next door.

“They’re good people. I’m sorry for them. We’re going to try to help them out the best way we can, whatever they need, we are going to provide it,” Franco said.

The fire marshal’s office is investigating the cause of the fire.

The fire department’s special services unit is working with the American Red Cross to assist 10 people, nine adults and one child from four families, who are displaced.

Franco said they are checking to see if they have vacancies in their other buildings since the damage is too extensive for them to live in this one now.

“As long as my tenants are safe, I don’t care. Everything is replaceable, but life,” Franco said.

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