Mansion destroyed by fire after owners fry turkey in garage

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Mansion destroyed by ***** after owners fry turkey in garage

Dec. 1 (UPI) — ***** destroyed a $3 million Connecticut mansion Thursday after residents fried a turkey in the garage, officials said.

Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at about 3:40 p.m. EST by an automatic ***** alarm on Weston Road in an upscale neighborhood, the Weston Volunteer ***** Department

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. More 911 calls soon followed.

The mansion was found engulfed in flames, the ***** spreading from the garage to the rest of the house by the time firefighters arrived.

“When we arrived, the whole garage end of the house was on ***** – like a third of the house,” Weston Volunteer ***** Department Chief John Pokorny

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“It accelerated really rapidly.”

The 10,000-square-foot house was worth approximately $2.8 million and had been hosting 25 people for the holiday when the ***** broke out, the outlet reported.

Pokorny said the water supply was not an issue in the largely rural and heavily treed area

“Really, the issue was the ***** had progressed so much by the time we arrived on scene,” he said.

No injuries were reported. Everyone who was in the house escaped. Video

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showed that the house was completely destroyed, reduced to smoking rubble.

The 11-bedroom, 9-and-a-half-bath home was built in 1998 on a 2.07-acre lot overlooking Held Pond in Fairfield County, 17 miles west of Bridgeport, a property listing said.

Crews from several ***** departments battled the ***** for 16 hours.

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