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Police Suspect Fire That Destroyed $3M Mansion Sparked By Turkey Frying In Garage

A $3 million mansion in a high-end Connecticut neighborhood met a fiery demise on Thanksgiving when the home was inundated in flames from a turkey frying inside a garage.

Heart-pounding images captured the raging inferno surrounding the Weston home just after 3:40 p.m. on Thursday as firefighters rushed to contain the fire.

Firefighters were alerted to the blaze by an automatic fire alarm on Weston Road before several 911 calls were made about a garage fire.

“When we arrived, the whole garage end of the house was on fire – like a third of the house,” Weston Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Pokorny told CT Insider.

Immense heat prohibited firefighters from getting too close to fight the blaze.

The fast-spreading flames ignited in the garage before accelerating into the rest of the home. Read the full story in the New York Post

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