Crime & Safety
3-Alarm House Fire Forces Firefighters To Evacuate Building
A house fire in a multi-family home rises to 3-alarms and forces firefighters working inside to get out.

WORCESTER, MA- Firefighters battled a 3-alarm fire in a multi-family home on Allen Street early Wednesday morning. The Worcester Fire and Police departments were on scene to put out the blaze.
Officials say at least 14 people were displaced by the fire and two firefighter were taken to the hospital. One firefighter suffered and ankle injury and the other suffered a back injury, both have been released from the hospital.
Firefighters were ordered out of the burning building and are battled the fire from ladders. The fire took about three and a half hours to extinguish.
This fire comes just days after the department lost firefighter Christopher Roy in a house fire just a mile away.
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