Windy conditions created a challenge for Massachusetts firefighters who battled a fatal four-alarm residential fire for hours early Tuesday.
The fire broke out at around 2:30 a.m. at a multi-family house in Revere, WCVB-TV reports. Several fire departments responded to the call, and when crews arrived, they found flames shooting through the home's roof.
“We arrived and there was heavy fire on the second floor and extended to the third. We had a report of three people trapped, initially," Revere Fire Department Deputy Chief Glen Rich told WCVB. "One person had actually jumped out the window and sustained injuries."
That person was a young girl, according to witnesses. She climbed out of a second-floor window and leaped to the ground below.
"My friend was trying to help a young girl," Gaudencio Ocasio, a neighbor, told WBTS-TV. "She wanted to jump from the second floor, and he tried to hold her but she was so scared that she still jumped. She fell to the bricks. The other two guys grabbed her and put her in the street because the fire was too hot."
A second person also sustained injuries in the fire and was taken to the hospital. A third person was believed to have died before firefighters arrived, Revere Deputy Fire Chief Glen Rich told WBTS.
Crews were able to get the fire under control by 10:30 a.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
