Overview
- Multiple 911 calls prompted firefighters to respond to heavy flames at Haverhill Street and Margin Street on Sunday afternoon, where crews found three occupied multi‑family buildings burning.
- Fire commanders struck successive alarms that reached a fourth alarm, which brought mutual‑aid crews and extra apparatus from neighboring departments to the scene.
- Crews completed primary searches of all three buildings and reported no injuries, and video from the scene shows a resident being rescued from a third‑floor window.
- Lawrence police closed part of Haverhill Street at Margin Street and urged motorists to avoid the area while crews contained the blaze and monitored hot spots.
- Firefighters battled the fire in very hot weather that required crew rotations for safety, investigators remain on scene to determine the origin, and officials say displacement of residents is possible though exact numbers are unclear.