Here’s a hazard of owning an electric or hybrid car that the greenies don’t talk much about:

Fire officials suspect an electric hybrid car may have sparked an overnight blaze in a garage in Barkhamsted on Center Hill Road.

Homeowner Storm Connors and his wife, Dee, said they awoke to the sound of a smoke alarm around 4 a.m. The couple said they have lived in the home for nearly 40 years. They built it and raised their children there, so when the flames took over their attached garage Thursday morning, burning it down to its beams, the couple started to panic. They said they were worried they were going to lose their home and the memories inside.

“I walked outside and looked in the garage door and it was flaming,” Dee Connors said. “I grabbed a pocketbook so I’d have a cellphone and a driver’s license and a jacket and a pair of slacks. I had no shoes, my feet were freezing.”

Within minutes of the 911 call reporting the fire, nearly 50 firefighters from surrounding communities headed to the scene. …

Officials said they can’t rule out that the couple’s brand new Chevy Volt hybrid had something to do with the blaze.