Explosion, Fire Damages Mountain Road Apartment Building

A fire in a second-floor apartment at 202 Mountain Rd. was reported at 2:30 p.m. Monday, closing Mountain Road to traffic as firefighters and emergency responders from Suffield and the surrounding area hurried to the area.

No injuries were reported in the multi-unit apartment building, which is close to the Bright Horizons childcare facility and town offices at 230C Mountain Rd. The blaze was mostly extinguished by 3:00 p.m. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

Sally Grano, who lives on the first floor of the building, said she was leaving for work when she heard an explosion. The apartment where the explosion and fire occurred is directly above the room occupied by her son, who wasn’t home at the time.

“The windows busted out,” she said, adding that black smoke was billowing out of the windows up to about 100 feet into the air.

Grano said she then saw flames coming out of the broken windows. She banged on the doors of her neighbors in the building, making sure they were safe, before moving to safety herself.

Grano said she didn’t notice a lot of damage to the building but was concerned about water damage to her home due to firefighters extinguishing the blaze.

The resident of the second-floor apartment was not home when the fire occurred.

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