A firefighter was also injured after falling in the building Author: FOX61 Staff Updated: 4:26 PM EST February 3, 2021
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. One person has died following a fire at an apartment building in New Britain.
Officials say they were called to the apartment just after 2 a.m. and when they arrived, saw smoke and flames coming from the 6th floor.
The New Britain Fire Department also received help from Hartford, West Hartford, and Bristol fire departments.
One firefighter was injured after slipping and falling inside the building. They said the firefighter was not seriously injured.
This is a developing story.
1 person taken to the hospital following a fire at a multi-apartment building in New Britain. Smoke and fire were seen coming from the 6th floor. pic.twitter.com/qmC7OzFq2t Lissette Nuñez (@LissetteNunezTV) February 3, 2021
WILDER – Three people were displaced after a fire damaged a mobile home in Wilder Monday morning, according to a news release from the Hartford Fire Department. Firefighters were called to the home at 22 Walnut St. around 6:45 a.m. after getting.
West Hartford Saturday blaze results in one death
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A fire engine leaves for a call from West Hartford Fire Station No. 1 in West Hartford, Conn., on Thursday Jan. 7, 2020.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
WEST HARTFORD One person died and another was sent to the hospital after an Elmfield Street home caught fire Saturday, according to the fire chief.
The person who died “suffered non-survivable injuries and was presumed dead at the scene,” while another person was sent to a hospital to be evaluated, an emailed statement sent by fire chief Greg Priest read.
Initial fire officials, who got there at about 9:57 p.m., saw “heavy fire coming from the front of” the home, the statement read.
Summary: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Hungary v. Simon
Readers interested in learning about another Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case currently before the Supreme Court, Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, can read Coleman Saunders’s summary of oral argument in that case here.
Can courts abstain from hearing suits against foreign sovereigns for reasons of international comity, even when the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) has provided the court jurisdiction over the suit by stripping the foreign sovereign of immunity? That is the central question that justices of the Supreme Court considered during oral argument Dec. 7, 2020, in the case of Hungary v. Simon, in which a group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary brought a putative class action against the Hungarian government seeking redress for the expropriation of their property during the Holocaust without first pursuing remedies in the Hungarian legal system.