Strong winds during a two-alarm residential fire Monday created tough conditions for crews, a Massachusetts fire chief said.
"This is one of the toughest fires I've ever fought in a two-and-a-half-story home," Brockton Fire Chief Michael Williams told The Enterprise. "It all relates back to that wind condition. We had a really hard time containing the fire and then extinguishing it. I can only contribute that to the wind conditions."
The fire broke out shortly before 11 p.m. at a two-family house. When crews arrived, they found flames shooting through the roof and windows and smoke coming from the back of the home.
Despite forecasted wind gusts of up to 60 mph, firefighters were able to contain the flames to the single home.
"Thank God, it started blowing in a different direction, and we didn't have any problems with the adjoining houses," Williams told The Enterprise.
"It's very rare that a house of this size burns for that long without us being able to contain it," he added.
No injures were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
