CHAPLIN, CT – At 12:56 a.m. on Thursday, May 29, 2025, the Chaplin Fire Department, with mutual aid from North Windham Engine 102, Willimantic Engine 101, Eastford Engine 271, Mansfield Squad 407, UConn FAST, KB Ambulance, and a Windham paramedic, was dispatched to 811 Phoenixville Road for a house fire.

At 1:04 a.m., Car 9 requested Chaplin to be re-toned and added Hampton to the response. Car 9 arrived at 1:09 a.m. to find heavy fire coming from a two-story, wood-frame residential home and requested five additional tankers. Scotland, Bungay, Windham Center, Columbia, and Willington Hill were then dispatched for tankers.

Crews stretched multiple lines from Engine 102 and Engine 101. The Chaplin Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.