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Utility Worker Uses Bucket Truck to Save Woman From Somerville Row House Fire

Officials say the swift rescue likely saved her life.

Overview

  • The blaze broke out Monday at 47 Marion St., a six-unit row house near Lincoln Park in Somerville.
  • An Eversource employee lifted a woman from a small porch roof before firefighters arrived, and she was hospitalized with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
  • Somerville requested a third alarm due to the risk of the fire spreading to attached homes.
  • Fire crews from Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Everett provided mutual aid to contain the incident.
  • Unit 47 was declared a total loss, other units sustained smoke, water, and structural damage, several residents were displaced, and the cause remains under investigation.