Fire at multi-family Medford home displaces several families, one with 4-day-old newborn
The fire broke out around 3:15 p.m. Monday.
A fire at a home on Canal Street in Medford on Monday has displaced several families, including one with a four-day-old baby.The Medford Fire Department responded to 86 Canal St. around 3:15 p.m. for what became a three-alarm fire, according to WCVB.Photos from the scene, shared by the department’s union on Facebook, show flames shooting from the roof and side of the multi-family home. One firefighter was taken to the hospital, the union said. The fire remains under investigation.
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One of the residents, Denise Ortiz, said a neighbor first alerted her to the fire.
“Her daughter came running downstairs, banged on our door, and said, ‘The house is on fire! Get everybody up!,’” she told WCVB. “We just ran out the way we were.”
Along with the newborn, a 3-year-old boy also lived in the home. Authorities believe three of the units, if not all four, were lived in at the time of the blaze, according to The Boston Globe.
WBZ reported that knocking the fire down was “difficult,” according to Medford fire Deputy Chief Brian Cronin. The house is in a dense neighborhood adjacent to the Mystic River.
“I actually happened to be here for a gas (leak) about a year ago, and I had already kind of I suppose game-planned this out in my head that if I ever had a fire because I knew it was going to be no access,” he told the news station.
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