UPDATE 1:35 p.m.
Bethel and Stony Hill fire departments responded to a fire at a home on Blackman Avenue. The home was engulfed in flame when they arrived at 12:14 p.m.
“It was through the roof when we got here,” said Ken Parciasepe, Stony Hill Fire Chief.
The home on fire was the historic Daniel Hickok House. The home reportedly housed Benedict Arnold, David Wooster and Gold Selleck Silliman.
The fire took 30 minutes to put out, Parciasepe said.
Firefighters working on the blaze at the historic Daniel Hickok House. Skyler Magnoli
Five firefighters worked the hose as others ran into the house to put out the fire. Roof shingles were flying off the house as water poured over the porch.
“The thing with these houses is once they start the really just go,” said one Bethel officer on the scene.
Prisicilla Brown, 75, lives down the street from the historic home said she was not surprised by the fire.
“I walk by this house everyday and just a couple days ago a large amount of smoke was coming from the back chimney,” Brown said. ” I said to my husband this place was going to go up and two days later.”
No one was in the home during the fire, the officer said.
No information has been released as to the cause of the fire.
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BETHEL — A fire tore through a historic Blackman Avenue home Monday afternoon.
The fire broke out at about noon Monday. Multiple departments responded to the blaze.
This post will be updated as more details are available.