More than 100 residents, including dozens of college students, in the Boston-area were left without a home after a massive fire blazed through their apartment building, injuring 11. Battling heavy rain and shifting winds, more than 100 Boston firefighters fought to contain a seven-alarm blaze that injured 11 people at a Fenway apartment building Saturday afternoon rescuing several people, officials said. The building is home to 114 residents, 70 of whom are students from Northeastern University, Berklee College of Music, Emerson College and Simmons University, according to the Boston Fire Department. Firefighters responded at 3:17 p.m. to an alarm at the five-story building, where heavy fire was already underway on the second floor, Fire Commissioner Joe Finn said. Seven residents were treated for smoke inhalation and four firefighters were injured, including two who were brought to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening. Mayor Marty Walsh says his administration is working with the colleges to make sure the students have alternate housing. The cause remains under investigation but Fire Commissioner Joe Finn says it appears to have started on the second floor and is not considered suspicious.
A seven-alarm fire destroys an apartment building in Boston, Massachusetts, injuring 11 people and displacing 114 residents.