Smoke investigation at residential home on Hillside Ave, Shelton CT

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/8/2025 05:43 PM

Near Hillside Ave, Shelton, CT 06484

Fire and police responded to a two-story home near Hillside Ave for a smoke investigation. There was a reported smoke odor possibly caused by a furnace backfire or an electrical issue, but no visible fire was found.

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Transcript:

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Health and Police, Health and Fire, companies, one, four, and five, companies one, four, and five to near Hillside Ave for the inside smoke investigation.

00:12

Cross of Coram and Crescent, time is 2043.

00:23

Car 6 responding.

00:26

Car 6, be advised,

00:28

isolated to the basement single-family residence.

00:34

Update, reticter.

00:42

Trust 3 101 respondent.

00:45

Roger. Roger.

00:48

Squad 103 responding.

00:53

There's squad 103.

00:56

Car 6 to squad one.

00:59

Squad one.

01:01

Squad. Squad.

01:07

Take Quorum to Humper Hillside.

01:09

You gotta hide your bed across the street.

01:13

Roger.

01:22

Car 617 near Hillside Ave, got a two-story woodframe residential, nothing telling.

01:27

Car 6 on the Hillside Ave command operating on Fireground 1.

01:31

Roger Car 6, put up near Hillside inside, there's command.

01:36

Trots on scene.

01:44

Squad's on seat.

01:51

Command of truck three officer.

01:55

Hillside up, command of truck three officer.

01:59

Hillside up, Commander Shawl.

02:04

Car 6, go ahead.

02:10

Companies are investigating a possible furnace backfire.

02:13

You can cancel the writ company in the second you can come in with traffic.

02:16

What is that? Receive.

02:20

Company 5, you can disregard.

02:22

Company 4 with traffic.

02:28

Number 47 on the air to be firing with traffic.

02:35

Ladder 50 watering seat, hold then in quarters.

02:42

Truck three hooking can in the command.

02:47

Go, dude.

02:49

All right, Keith, homeowner is reported he had an electrical issue while back, electrician came out.

02:58

I'm saying it smelled like smoke from there, but I got no reading towards the visible type of right now.

03:05

All right, see, was he able to tell you where the source was last time?

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