
The following photos in this gallery are from the years 2000 to current date.
Earlier dates can be found on the fire history pages.
A fast moving fire at 177 Ward St. on April 1st of 2007 caused heavy damage to an abandoned house and briefly endangered the adjacent residence at 179 Ward St. The neighboring house sustained minor damage when siding was melted by intense heat.
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Firefighters arrived to find a large wood frame boathouse in the 600 block of Quinnipiac Ave. in the city's Fairhaven section to be fully involved. The November 7th 2007 blaze destroyed the structure and the equipment of a local lobster company. (Photo by FF Joe Ciscone).
In a dramatic rescue by his brother firefighters, Captain Howard McCann of Engine Co. 17 was pulled from a 2nd floor window after he ran out of air while fighting a fast-moving house fire on Cove Street on December 9th of 2004.
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The lone occupant of a single story ranch style home at 164 Rosewood Av. died and the home was destroyed as flames raced through the house on February 2nd of 2004. (Photos by Joe Ciscone).
Firefighters seen attacking an exterior fire at Middletown Avenue on October 3rd of 2003. (Photo by FF Joe Ciscone).
New Haven Firefighter Terry Roundtree is seen perched on a ladder as he opens an exterior wall to uncover hidden flames at a working fire at 102-104 Plymouth St on April 14th of 2003. (Photo by FF Joe Ciscone).
A smoky 2- Alarm fire in a house at 216 Fitch St. on December 15th of 2002 damaged a 3rd floor apartment and caused smoke and water damage to the floors below. (FF J. Ciscone photo)
Fire crews faced an impossible task when they rolled up on this fully involved 2.5 story house on James St. on October 31st of 2002. These amazing photos were captured by FF Joe Ciscone who was early to arrive at the fire scene.
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Firefighters beginning their attack on a fully involved wood structure on Lewis Street in New Haven on April 26th of 2002. (Photo by FF Joe Ciscone).
Firefighters are shown as they raise an aerial ladder and stretch hose lines during a 2 Alarm blaze that gutted the top floors of a Grafton St home on Febuary 2nd of 2002. (Photos by FFJoe Ciscone
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3 homes were destroyed and a 4th was damaged when a raging 4-alarm fire ripped through the 400 block of Ferry St. on April 16th of 2001. A woman fell from a 3rd floor window and was seriously injured while trying to escape from the flames.
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Fast action by New Haven firefighters using an aerial ladder water tower prevented flames from extending to adjacent houses as fire tore through this 2.5 wood on Harding Pl. (FF Joe Ciscone photo)
A team of firefighters directs a master stream onto a burning factory on Warwick St. in New Haven. The date is unknown. (Photo ID by FF Joe Ciscone).
New Haven Fire Lt. Gene Stabile is seen taking a quick break surrounded by charged hose lines during a fire on Orchard Street. (Photo by FF Joe Ciscone).
Firefighters are seen in November of 2000 as they hack through the roof of CT Freezers Inc. at 1 Brewery Street to ventilate a 2 alarm fire in the office area on the second floor of the 2 story building.
( D. Johnson photo)
A 2 Alarm fire, that began on the first floor of a 2.5 story wood framed house on Pendleton St., on March 3rd of 2000 raced upwards and rapidly spread to the second floor and attic and eventually broke through the roof.
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