2 Alarm Fire In Brookline Displaces Residents

BROOKLINE, MA — A firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries Wednesday night, after working to help put out a two-alarm fire at an Adams Street home, according to fire officials.

A resident came home just after 8:15 p.m. to smoke and flames filling their house and called 911. When crews arrived they, too, saw heavy fire and smoke on the first and second floors, Brookline Fire Department Chief of Operations Keith Flaherty said Thursday morning.

Flaherty said the residents were all able to get out safely, but one firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

"Everybody did a great job," Flaherty said. "We have a very competent firefighting core, they're very enthusiastic they did a lot of hard work, which is why we called for help."

Fire Departments from Cambridge, Newton and Boston assisted with the second alarm.

By 8:45 p.m. the bulk of the fire was put out, and crews then set to work making sure there were no hot spots.

The single-family brick home built in 1910 was last valued at $1.5 million. Flaherty put an early estimate at about $500,000 worth of damage to the home. The residents, he said, will likely be displaced "for a considerable period of time."

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to Flaherty.