Child playing with lighter starts two-alarm fire on Hyde Park Avenue
By adamg - 7/23/12 - 2:04 pm
A kid playing with a lighter on a second-floor porch started a fire that heavily damaged two buildings, sent one firefighter to the hospital and made six people homeless, the Boston Fire Department reports.
The fire, reported at 12:38 p.m. at 444 Hyde Park Ave., sent smoke billowing into the air that was visible for miles around and generated enough heat to damage the paint on a house behind it on Philbrick Street.
The injured firefighter suffered a back injury, the department says, adding the fire did an estimated $300,000 in damage to the house - and $25,000 in damage to the singed house behind it.
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another smoker?
Sounds like another smoker.
It was a little kid playing
It was a little kid playing with a lighter. I want to know what happens to the parents of this child that left 10 people homeless!?
That's a good question, anon.
My god...what were the parents up to..leaving a little kid unsupervised like that? Rather pathetic...and irresponsible, imho.