TEMPLETON, MASS. (WHDH) - The Templeton Fire Department battled a massive building fire on Patriots Road Thursday night.
Templeton Police were first on the scene, where they saw smoke and fire at a home next to a large horse training facility, at which point a second alarm was struck.
The fire would expand to 5 alarms, with crews from Athol, Ashburnham, Barre, Fitchburg, Gardner, Hubbardston, Phillipston, Royalston, Westminster, and Winchendon assisting.
This was the second 5-alarm fire in Templeton in two weeks.
“Shortly after firefighters arrived, the fire spread to the horse training facility, where about six horses were still inside and fifteen were just outside the facility,” Hubbardston fire said in a statement. “All people and animals were removed safely and there were no injuries to first responders or civilians.”
The horse training facility was deemed a total loss, but the residence as only partially damaged. One party was displaced by the fire.
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