5 Residents Pulled From 4-Alarm Fire In Hyde Park
BOSTON (CBS) -- Five residents were pulled from a four-alarm house fire in Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood on Saturday night.
The gas-fed basement fire broke out at the 2 1/2-story, three-family Greenwood Avenue home around 5:30 p.m., according to the Boston Fire Department Twitter account.
Ten people were inside the house at the time of the fire, with nine of them being residents, fire officials said. At least two kids and two adults were pulled from the fire over ladders.
"Well, the challenge is when you're getting a call of children in the building (and) people in the building rather than fighting an outside fire," said Boston Fire Chief John Walsh. "We went in, and the guys did a great job plucking them out."
Across the street, Patricia Jhurilal and her family watched in horror. They grew up in the home.
Patricia's mom was taken to the hospital, but the family was thankful nobody was killed.
"We're just happy that everybody's safe and everybody got out," she says. "It was horrible because I didn't know if anybody was hurt...All I knew is when I got the phone call that they were taking my mother to the hospital I was just so scared."
Five people were taken to Carney Hospital and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. As of late Saturday night, the extent of their injuries and current condition were unknown.
Two firefighters also were taken to the hospital, with one of them suffering non-life-threatening injuries. The other firefighter's injuries and current condition are unknown.
There was a partial roof collapse, fire officials say, and firefighters ended up having to fight the blaze from 100 feet outside the home due to unsafe conditions inside of it.
Fire officials say a gas company shut down the gas.
Firefighters tended to hot spots late into the night.
Ladder 28 overhauling to get at hot spot pic.twitter.com/zvdLaSGzRE
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) November 22, 2015
The fire chief estimates $850,000 in damages.
Investigators didn't enter the home late Saturday night, but they planned to inspect it Sunday morning. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The American Red Cross helped the displaced, fire officials say.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Kim Tunnicliffe reports
WBZ-TV's Jim Smith contributed to this report.