14 families displaced by Cambridge fire receive keys to new housing
The city estimates that 166 people were affected by the fire.
Fourteen families impacted by last weekend’s massive fire in Cambridge received keys to new permanent housing on Friday, less than a week after the blaze ripped through a neighborhood and displaced an estimated 166 people, according to a statement from the city.
Five more families will be able to move into their new units at the beginning of next week, officials said.
“The entire citywide response to this fire has been incredible,” Mayor E. Denise Simmons said in a statement. “From the opening moments when the first fire fighters arrived on the scene, to the next 48 hours as money started flooding in to assist these victims, to this past week as City Hall was converted into a bustling hive of activity, with scores of victims getting connected with the services they need.”
No one was injured in the 10-alarm fire, which quickly spread through 18 properties in the city’s Wellington-Harrington neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
An inter-agency team of local and state departments has identified and registered 80 families needing assistance. Cambridge has dispersed $184,000 in donations from the Mayor’s Fire Relief Fund, according to City Manager Louis DePasquale. More than $600,000 have been contributed to the fund via online donations.
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