Mass. Two-Alarm Duplex House Fire Displaces Nine
Dec. 05--A two-alarm blaze tore through a two-family house on Sydney Street in the Savin Hill neighborhood of Dorchester yesterday morning, displacing nine tenants and causing an estimated $500,000 in damage, fire officials said.
The blaze began at 10:54 a.m. in the rear first-floor level of the house at 161 Sydney St., said Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald.