Sprinkler System Helps Contain Cambridge Apartment Fire
CAMBRIDGE (CBS) – A fast-moving fire in Cambridge could have been much worse if it wasn't for the sprinkler system.
Firefighters were called to a four-story apartment building at the corner Auburn and Magazine streets around 1 a.m. after flames broke out on a second floor porch. The fire then spread to two more buildings.
"I started hearing cracking and popping. We really didn't think much of it and then I looked out my window and saw all these embers falling,"resident Andrew Colello told WBZ-TV.
"I hear a crash and there's like a fireman knocking down my door, waking all my roommates up, getting us out of there."
A total of 20 units were evacuated safely because the sprinklers helped contain the fire, acting Fire Chief Gerard Mahoney told reporters.
No one was hurt.
There's no word yet on a cause.
The four-alarm fire came just days before the first anniversary of a massive 10-alarm fire on Berkshire Street in Cambridge.
"This thankfully, had a far different outcome than that did. But we don't like to see anybody displaced at any time, particularly in the holiday season," Mahoney said.
About 60 people were displaced in Thursday's fire.
