DORCHESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm fire that broke out inside a triple-decker home in Dorchester Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters said the flames started on the second floor and spread through the third floor of the Park Street triple-decker.
Sky7HD shows them battling the flames from the roof, in nearly 100-degree heat.
“Well, 100-degree temperature outside as well as a significant amount of fire inside. With all our protective gear, 80 pounds or so of equipment, that we carry. Not to mention the hose and everything else we’re operating,” the deputy fire chief said. “These are very challenging times for us.”
Robert Ellison said he and a friend saw the flames start to spread so they ran to the second floor to make sure a man inside was able to get out.
“We’re knocking on the door and he came running down the stairs. He said he was sleeping,” Ellison recalled.
All residents were safely evacuated. No firefighters were injured.
“It was something I was supposed to know, you know what I mean,” Ellison said. “I’d want someone to do it for me.”
Neighbors took videos of the intense blaze as it shot up into the air.
‘It was very scary because it was a big flame,” Maria Rodrigues said. ”
There was no word on how the fire may have ignited.
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