A serious fire started occurred at a private home at 108 Hamburg Rd. in Lyme last Thursday evening. Flames were raging out of the second floor window when fire department vehicles arrived around 8:30 p.m.
The fire marshal’s office has now determined that the cause of the fire was the failure of the cooling system in an older desktop computer. On Friday, they opened up the computer and found it clogged with dust. Investigators say the homeowner explained he left the home office computer on all the time, but turned off the monitor.
No one was home at the time. The house suffered considerable damage isolated to the second floor room.