By Leslie Mayes and Jessie Sawyer
NBC Connecticut
BRANFORD, Conn. — Multiple residents were hanging out of windows at a Main Street home in Branford trying to escape flames when firefighters arrived to put out the blaze on Tuesday morning.
Eight people were home in the three-family house when the two-alarm fire broke out at 674 Main Street at 3:45 a.m., including four people on the first floor who got out after their smoke detector went off.
However, fire blocked all exits, preventing the others from escaping on their own, and firefighters had to use a ladder to rescue three trapped residents. They also had to wake up a man in the second-floor apartment who didn’t hear his smoke detector go off. They helped him out of the building.
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