7-Alarm Boston Fire Displaced Dozens

BOSTON, MA — At least 60 people are displaced and several more are injured after a seven-alarm fire that has ripped through a residential building in the Fenway neighborhood. The fire started some time after 3 p.m., and firefighters were expecting to be working into the night.

The fire is at 104- 108 Hemenway St. Police are cautioning drivers to stay away from the area, where there are a number of college dorms and student dwellings.

Just before 5 p.m. Northeastern University police sent out an alert notifying students living in a nearby dorm, Kennedy Hall to evacuate.

Boston Fire Chief Joe Finn said "8-10 civilians" had minor injuries and one firefighter suffered a cut, reported Ch. 7. He also said about 60-70 residents were displaced, mostly college students at Northeastern and Berklee.

Fire officials said a call came in at 3:17 p.m. for a report of a building on fire. When firefighters arrived, they saw flames coming from the five-story brick apartment building. Within the hour fire officials were ordering firefighters out of the building, according to early dispatch radio reports.

Photos show dark smoke pouring from the building on the gloomy rainy day.

Here's where the fire is:

This comes after a 150-Year-Old Baptist Church Destroyed In 7-Alarm Blaze in Wakefield. In January firefighters fought a 5-Alarm Fire In Frigid Temps in Dorchester.

In March 2014, two firefighters died in a Back Bay Brownstone fire that struck nine-alarms. The fire at the four-story brick row house at 298 Beacon St. also injured 18 others, including 13 firefighters.

Nearby workers welding an iron railing were believed to have started the fire, which was ruled an accident.

Check out this video of the flames that Sophia Foutsitzis captured:

More info to come as it becomes available.

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Photos courtesy Boston Fire Department.