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A fire ravaged the interior of a Union Street building Sunday. (Town Of Vernon )
26 Union St. in Vernon Monday morning. A fire ravaged the interior of the building Sunday. (Chris Dehnel/Patch)
VERNON, CT Unattended candles were the cause of a harrowing Sunday morning fire at a Union Street apartment building in Vernon, officials are saying, and the town s emergency management director and town administrator is crediting rescue efforts to old-fashioned urban firefighting.
The fire wrecked the inside of a row of apartments along the historic Fitch Block on Union Street, just before Downtown Rockville. In all, 16 adults and 2 children were displaced. Many of them were rescued after hanging out windows to cry for help and firefighters threw up ladders in a tight alleyway to pull them to safety.