MALDEN, MASS. (WHDH) - Crews battled flames that broke out in a three-family home on Albion Street in Malden Thursday morning.
Firefighters arrived on scene at about 6 a.m., finding heavy smoke coming from the building. They were told that two men were trapped inside, an elderly man on the third floor and another male on the second. One was able to walk out on his own, while the other required assistance.
“Fire was primarily on the second floor, traveled through the wall and up into the attic, so we had fire on floors 2, 3, as well as the cockloft and the new walls in the attic,” Malden Deputy Fire Chief Peter Endicott.
The elderly man suffered from smoke inhalation and the other man’s arm sustained an injury. Both were brought to a local hospital to be treated for these non-life-threatening injuries.
A neighbor said she ran to grab one of the men a sweatshirt from her house.
“I was very worried about them because they had nothing. They had absolutely nothing, all in kind of pajamas,” she said.
No firefighters were reported injured; the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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