As fire tore through a condo complex in New Milford on Thursday morning, a North Haven dad who was delivering school supplies to children of soldiers injured in war became a hero for residents and saved lives, reports NBC Connecticut.
Fire broke out in a ground-floor apartment at 466 Danbury Road in New Milford this morning, damaging eight condos. Everyone made it out safely, but a dog was lost.
Angelo Appi, who had just delivered 110 boxes of school supplies to Operation Homefront, a program to support children of wounded veterans, was driving by on Route 7 and stopped when he saw smoke pouring from the building.
Other residents told Appi a woman who lives above the apartment where the fire broke out wasa still unaccounted for. He and another man went up after her.
The three rushed downstairs just in time.
“He’s a hero,” said Nicole Whitaker, who lives in nearby in a building firefighters managed to shield from the flames.
Photos from the scene this morning show flames shooting through the roof. The fire spread and caused heavy damage, and firefighters had to lay their hoses along Route 7 to connecto to a hydrant.
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