NEW HAVEN — At 3:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, New Haven residents Matt and Jackie Schlein received a frantic call from their daughter, informing them that their home was on fire.
The Schleins were out of town visiting relatives in Saugerties, N.Y. When they arrived home in New Haven a few hours after receiving the phone call, their house was, as Schlein wrote on his Facebook page, a “toasted shred” of the structure that he and his family had lived in for 18 years. They lost their cat, their belongings, and the structure of their home.
