You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please verify your current subsription or subscribe.
WILTON — An electrical line to an outside furnace shorted out Wednesday morning, igniting leaves, dozens of pallets and woods at 22 Cushman St., Fire Rescue Chief Sonny Dunham said.
An estimated 25-30 pallets and an area about 50 by 100 feet burned.
“It was so much fire it was bright,” he said.
Firefighters stopped the flames before they reached dwellings in the area, Dunham said.
Comments are not available on this story. Read more about why we allow commenting on some stories and not on others.
We believe it’s important to offer commenting on certain stories as a benefit to our readers. At its best, our comments sections can be a productive platform for readers to engage with our journalism, offer thoughts on coverage and issues, and drive conversation in a respectful, solutions-based way. It’s a form of open discourse that can be useful to our community, public officials, journalists and others.
We do not enable comments on everything — exceptions include most crime stories, and coverage involving personal tragedy or sensitive issues that invite personal attacks instead of thoughtful discussion.
