Boston Herald
BOSTON — One firefighter suffered an electric shock and at least 25 people were displaced by a stubborn two-alarm fire that started on the third floor of a Roxbury apartment building this evening, fire officials said.
Fire crews were called to the four-story, 14-apartment brick residential building on Seaver Street at 5:07 p.m., and when arriving jakes saw smoke pouring from the structure, they quickly struck a second alarm.
“One firefighter being treated and transported by Boston EMS after receiving an electric shock,” fire officials tweeted from the fire scene. “Was able to walk out of the building.”
But none of the residents of the building were injured, fire officials said.
An MBTA bus was called on to provide shelter to those left homeless, officials said. Along with the Boston Fire Department’s victims assistance program, Red Cross officials also were alerted, they said.
“Firefighters just reunited a resident with their cat,” a Fire Department tweet announced. “Nice.”
The on-scene fire chief estimated damage to the building at $750,000, fire officials said.
Investigators traced the cause of the fire back to a short circuit in the ceiling of a third-floor bathroom, they said.
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