A devastating New Year's Day apartment complex fire in a Massachusetts town that killed two senior citizens was a perfect storm of circumstances as more than 100 firefighters were needed to put out the blaze, said the head of the fire department's union. Ultimately, 10 Fall River firefighters were sent to the hospital because of the fire, which began when a car slammed into the side of one of the complex's buildings.
"We often have cars that go into buildings.This one happened to sever a main gas line, so it was a gas-fed fire," Jason Burns, president for the firefighters union, told WPRI-TV. "It was a holiday. You had 85 people to get out of the building. I think it wore guys thin because they kept having to come up with a new plan."
