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A one-alarm fire broke out shortly before 2 p.m. today at 19 Bullard St., the Boston Fire Department says. An electrical short circuit sparked the fire in a rear bedroom on the second floor. No occupants were injured, but one firefighter went to the... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a one-alarm fire at 10 Winter St. this afternoon did roughly $30,000 in damage and displaced seven adults and two children. The department says the blaze, on the second floor of a three-decker, started as a stove fire... Read more
Boston firefighters were busy Thursday night battling a large fire at 5 Alicia Rd. that broke out before 8:30 p.m. Firefighters in the attic had to be evacuated around 9 p.m. when part of the roof collapsed; about ten minutes later, firefighters were... Read more
Fires on Clarkson Street and Blue Hill Ave. sent three residents and two firefighters to the hospital overnight. Three people suffered smoke inhalation and burns in a fire that broke out on Clarkson Street around 6 p.m., according to fire photographer... Read more
Fire scene: Charred triple decker. A fast-moving New Year's Eve blaze tore through a Sydney Street three-decker last week, displacing ten residents, including a couple who were forced to descend a ladder from their third-story porch in the middle of a... Read more
A four-alarm fire on Colonial Avenue left 18 people without a home Monday morning when the three-story apartment building went up in flames. There were tears and missing pets on the sidewalk as residents stood, wrapped in blankets, watching firefighters... Read more
The joy of a holiday and birthday celebration turned to tragedy last week as a fast-moving house fire inside a Bellevue Street three-decker stole the lives of two children, one of whom had just celebrated her ninth birthday just hours before. Flames... Read more
Last Monday, flames ripped through a three-decker home on Blue Hill Ave, injuring 14 residents - eight adults and six children. As firefighters hurried to put out the inferno, 54 year-old Mary Williams was one of the Mattapan residents who rushed to... Read more
The Boston Fire Department likes to think of themselves as one large family, and even if their family outings might not be a trip to Castle Island, they live and work together with an intense closeness. Last week they welcomed into their ranks 46 new... Read more
A four-alarm fire at a home on the corner of Woodworth and Walnut Streets brought 93 firefighters and 13 fire trucks to Port Norfolk on Tuesday. The fire intensified quickly in high winds and power lines on all sides of the two and a half story home... Read more

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