Condition of 10-year-old fire victim improves
The condition of a 10-year-old boy who was rescued from a house fire in Allston by neighbors and an off-duty EMT is improving, and he will likely be released from Massachusetts General Hospital by the weekend, a family friend said.
“He’s doing much better now. He’s talking, and he wants to come home,’’ said Tosak Hoontakul, 42, the owner of the house at 4 Wadsworth St., where Anthony Thainiyum was overcome Monday night by smoke from a fire on the third floor. Thainiyum lost consciousness inside his bedroom. His locked door had to be kicked in by neighbors as fire raged in the hallway; a Boston EMT assisted in carrying the boy out.
The fire was extinguished within minutes. Investigators are working to determine the cause of the blaze.
A spokeswoman with the city’s Inspectional Services Department said a citation will be issued against the owner for operating an illegal rooming house.
Hoontakul said this morning that the house is not used as a rooming house, and that despite the fact that more than one family lives there, they are all long-time friends who share all expenses.
The citation does not include a monetary penalty but requires the owners to “apply for and secure a permit to determine the occupancy of the building,’’ according to Lisa Timberlake, the department’s spokeswoman.
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