all right we want to get back to some
developing news that we're following
this morning in Shelton firefighters are
still there putting out hotspots at the
old Starr pin Factory on Canal Street
which is just north of the Derby Shelton
bridge there was a big fire there late
last night channel 3 Eyewitness News
reporter Karolina Cruz is live on the
scene this morning with the latest on
what's still happening today Karolina
good morning Caitlin well the whole
morning I've been telling you how this
has been such a stubborn fire for first
responders and for firefighters in the
last 12 hours they have been battling
this fire here and for the first time
they finally put the ladder truck down
the last one and now it looks like
they're gonna have to put it back up
because it started rekindling you can
see the roof there it's back on fire and
and it just started maybe within the
last minute or so and you can already
see that the flames are kind of
spreading and that's what the fire chief
was talking with us about earlier saying
how the lay out in the timber and the
way this building was built it's been a
pain for them because once the fire got
a hold of it that fire quickly spread so
when they first got here all six of the
floors were already on fire both Derby
and Shelton firefighters were here and
at the height of this fire there were
about a hundred and seventy firefighters
responding to this they say they were
there were embers flying all throughout
this area and to both communities both
Derby and Shelton and some of those
embers actually went into a nearby
building sparked a fire there a small
spot fire as well as into three other
buildings and something else that's
interesting Kaitlin I want you to come
back out life to me guys is they had to
call in some town crews with bridges and
highways to lay down some material here
on the railroad tracks this is a
makeshift Road that they basically built
overnight that's just because it was
much easier for firefighters to get all
of their equipment and all of their
trucks and apparatuses in through this
area versus
either and because the street is really
narrow here on Canal Street and the fire
chief he talked about how important it
was to have the community support all
throughout the night the community
support is tremendous in the valley
region we didn't even have to ask people
were taught contacting our auxilary and
just offering pizzas I I don't know how
many restaurants provided but there was
a lot of hundred pizzas available to
feed feed everybody the fire chief says
that crews will be here pretty much
throughout the day because they also
need to investigate how this fire
started
so there is no cause just yet luckily
though nobody was hurt in this fire
and then also DEP crews and EPA
investigators they are here as well as
the fire marshal because they also have
to look at the environmental impact this
fire had here in this community also the
roof there there was a total roof
collapse here and so some of that some
of those parts ended up going into the
river here so they'll also have to be
looking at the impact that that had
we're going to continue monitoring this
story for you throughout the day