An off-duty firefighter sprang into action Friday and helped rush residents out of a burning home in Belmont.
Firefighters responded to the area of Trapelo Road around 10 a.m. to battle the 2-alarm blaze.
The firefighter who first alerted residents to the fire said, “I was just driving by heading into Boston and I saw the smoke. So, I pulled over and I just went to the front door and started getting people out.”
A man who lives in the building said he is lucky to have made it out of the house safely.
“I heard a fire alarm and then I heard a bonfire,” he said. “I went out to my kitchen and saw smoke coming off the building and left.”
There were no reported injuries.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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