Mattapan Fire Displaces Over A Dozen People

MATTAPAN (CBS) -- Fourteen people, including four children, have been displaced after a multi-family home in Mattapan went up in flames overnight.

Boston firefighters responded to the home on Evelyn Street around 11 p.m. on Sunday.

According to officials, the fire began on the second floor and then spread to the top floor and the attic.

All residents were able to make it safely out of the building.

One firefighter was transported from the scene with a shoulder injury.

Jharrell Speller lives a few houses down, he was woken up by sirens.

"Over time it just started to spread and spread. You could start to see flames come out of the roof and everything," Speller said.

Officials believe about $500,000 was done in damage.

They do not know what caused the fire.

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