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Boston firefighters put out raging six-alarm fire in Charlestown

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A six-alarm fire broke out early Friday in Charlestown, displacing 25 people and destroying a laundromat considered a landmark in the Monument Square area.

The fire was discovered around 6:45 a.m. in a building with six residential units on the upper floors and the Monument Laundromat on the ground floor a neighborhood institution that appeared in scenes from Ben Affleck’s 2010 movie, “The Town.’’

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