UPDATE: JAN. 21: 2:38 p.m. New Milford Fire Marshal Karen Facey said Wednesday that the cause of the fire at Candlewood Condominiums in August was determined to possibly have been caused by an “undetermined problem involving a box fan and/or its related components and electrical source.”
The cause was determined to be accidental. The insurance companies continue to conduct forensic analysis on the fan and other evidence they removed from the unit in which the fire began, Facey said.
NEW MILFORD — After five months the remains of a condo complex that sustained heavy damage in a fire in August was being demolished Wednesday.
The fire at Candlewood Condominiums at 466 Danbury Road (Route 7) in New Milford on Aug. 21 destroyed much of an eight-unit building, starting on the ground level and rising to the condos on the second floor and into the attic. The New Milford Fire Marshal never determined a cause for the blaze.
One resident was transported to Danbury Hospital for smoke inhalation and later released. A pet dog died in the fire.
The remains of an 8-unit condominium building at Candlewood Condominiums on Danbury Road that burned in August was being demolished Jan. 21, 2015