VIDEO: Crews are investigating after a fire at an apartment complex in New Britain left about a dozen families with nowhere to stay.
"We saw smoke and a large fireball coming out of the apartment above us," David Neilander of New Britain said.
As flames shot out of the middle-floor apartment on Stanley Street, families rushed for the exit.
Neilander and his family live in the unit right below and they said when they heard the fire alarm, they grabbed what they could and ran.
"I heard some people shouting out here out front so I went to my window to see what was going on," Juanita Ortiz, who also lives at the Ellis House Apartments, said.
Ortiz said she saw people yelling for everyone to get out.
The New Britain Fire Department said when firefighters arrived, heavy fire from the middle floor had already extended to the floor above.