Firefighters extinguished a fireplace fire that spread to the roof of a home Wednesday morning in Fairfield, according to officials.
Crews responded to the fire around 7 a.m. on Old Post Road across from Town Hall Green.
Arriving crews found the homeowner trying to extinguish a fire that was inside a wall void on the side of the house with a garden hose, according to officials.
The homeowner told firefighters that he had been burning a fire in the fireplace since yesterday. When he woke up Wednesday morning, he smelled smoke and assumed it was from the smoldering fire, officials said. He added a few logs to stoke the fire and “increase the draft up the chimney flue,” according to officials. The cable TV died a short time later and the homeowner went outside to investigate and noticed that the side of his house behind the fireplace was on fire.