A man was injured Wednesday morning in a fire that badly damaged a four-unit residential building in the Meadow View Apartments complex in Ellsworth.
More information was not immediately available about the condition of the man, who was found by firefighters inside the burning unit and taken by ambulance to nearby Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital.
“They found him right at his front door,” Chief Scott Guillerault of the Ellsworth Fire Department said. “There was heavy fire in the apartment.”
After the fire was reported via an activated alarm at 8:30 a.m., firefighters saw a column of thick smoke rising up from the apartment complex as they approached.
By 9:45 a.m., firefighters had mostly extinguished the blaze.
The fire in the man’s apartment spread into the roof above a common area that links the four units together, Guillerault said. He was unsure if the other apartments in the building were damaged by smoke.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, Guillerault added.
Fire departments from Lamoine, Mariaville, Otis, Mount Desert, Orland, Southwest Harbor and Trenton sent trucks and firefighters to help extinguish the blaze. Investigators with the state fire marshal’s office were at the scene assisting the department, he said.
