Firefighters Respond to 5-Alarm Whitman (MA) Apartment Fire

Multiple fire departments responded Wednesday evening to a fire that went to five alarms in the Massachusetts town of Whitman.

No one was injured, although six families were displaced by the fire, according to theEnterprise News.

The Whitman Fire Department responded to a report of a fire inside a second-floor apartment. Firefighters from Whitman and 16 other municipalities battled the fire for more than three hours.

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According toCBS News Boston、烟花inside the more than 100-year-old home ignited.

“It’s a very stubborn fire, because of the age and the layout of the building,” Deputy Chief Joseph Feeney told reporters. About 80 firefighters from surrounding towns–Hanson, Abington, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Rockland, Brockton, Norwell, Hanover, Halifax, Hingham, Holbrook, Randolph, Marshfield, Avon, and Pembroke–assisted Whitman crews on scene.

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