Dorchester Fire Sends Two Firefighters To Hospital, Displaces 17

Boston MA

04 April, 2022

3:17 PM

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DORCHESTER, MA — Two Boston firefighters are in the hospital with burn injuries after battling a three-alarm fire at a triple-decker in Dorchester Monday morning. According to the Boston Fire Department, the fire started around 10:15 a.m. on one of the floors of a three-family building at 28 Fifield Street before spreading to all three floors within fifteen minutes. A good Samaritan named Tyleek Solomon told NBC10 he saw the flames and immediately ran into the building to try and rescue occupants before anyone even had a chance to call 911. "I saw the smoke and ran inside, kicked the front door open, grabbed two people from the top," he told NBC10 Boston. "It blew up on the back porch while I was inside trying to grab them out. All the smoke just started pouring out of the building." Emergency crews responded to the scene by 10:30 a.m., ordering everyone out of the house and off the porch. Two firefighters were injured with minor burns and were taken to the hospital by Boston EMS, crews reported. "We were worried about the adjacent building, the low power lines," District Chief Jonathan Rodriguez of the Boston Fire Department said. The fire was able to be knocked down around 11 a.m., Chief Rodriguez said. Crews remained on the scene to make sure there were no more hot spots in the building. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, and the American Red Cross is helping the 17 displaced residents find housing.