Fire officials said one woman was rescued through a stairwell of the building and another had to be rescued with a ladder truck that reached the third floor.

Fires erupted on opposite sides of the capital city at two separate apartment complexes, over a dozen of families displaced.

Two people were taken to the hospital after an apartment fire in Hartford on Monday night and several families are now displaced. The fire department said they responded to an apartment building on Wethersfield Avenue around 9 p.