Fire in East Hartford Apartment Building, One Rescued

0:00It's March 31st. From your city to your ears, this is Hartford News today, powered by AI. A fire broke out in an East Hartford apartment building on Toland Street Tuesday morning around 10am, trapping one person inside. Firefighters from a nearby station rushed over and under a minute and pulled that resident from the first floor where the blaze started, rushing them. Straight to a local hospital. Their condition isn't public yet, but luckily no one else got hurt. Folks on the second floor made it out on their own safely. The flames hit the starting unit hard and spread to one upstairs, leaving five residents displaced from their homes. Crews are still digging into what sparked it all, so we'll keep an eye out for updates as this wraps up.