Seven people have been taken to the hospital after a house fire in Wethersfield Monday morning and a neighbor, a police officer and a firefighter are being credited with helping to save a woman.
Firefighters responded to the home on Laconia Road after getting multiple reports of a fire around 6:15 a.m. When they arrived, they found heavy smoke coming from the home.
According to the fire chief, a neighbor and a police officer helped the family get a woman in a wheelchair out of the home.
Due to the heavy smoke conditions in the home, the family was encouraged to go to the hospital to be checked for smoke inhalation.
Two firefighters, two children and three adults, including the woman who was rescued, were treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation. Another adult who lives in the home had already left for work before the fire started.
Crews said the damage is mostly contained to the kitchen with heavy smoke damage throughout the house.
There’s no word on what started the fire.