A fire ripped through a Cushing Avenue house on Tuesday afternoon, prompting a huge response from Boston firefighters and a scramble to prevent the blaze from spreading to other structures in the densely-settled Jones Hill neighborhood.
The fire at 105 Cushing Ave. hit four alarms just after 2 p.m., as flames shot out of the second-floor turret. The wood-frame home is listed as a four to six-family house, built in 1910, according to city records.
Fire trucks pulled up to both Cushing Avenue and Sawyer Avenue. The house is directly behind the historic home on Sawyer Avenue of civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter. There were no immediate reports of injuries related to the incident.
