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Two-alarm fire damages Roxbury house; resident injured jumping from flames
By adamg on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 8:46am
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded at 7:45 a.m. to what turned into a two-alarm fire at 13 Gaston St.
A man was injured jumping from an upper floor, the department says, adding a total of five people were displaced.
Damage was estimated at $300,000. Investigators are looking for the cause.
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Roxbury or Dorchester?
House fires are horrifying. The house next door to me had a fire a few years ago and was vacant for almost 2 years after that. A man is in the hospital after he jumped from this fire on Gaston St. I hope he is ok.
And once again, as is true with so much of Boston, is a given address in Dorchester or Roxbury,? Uhub headline says Roxbury, but the link provided to WHDH says Dorchester.
A quick search comes up with the following for Gaston Street
Channels 25, 10 , 5 and 7 call it Dorchester
The Globe and Google maps call it Roxbury
Bostonograpy indicates it is Roxbury buy with less certainty than other parts of Roxbury
http://bostonography.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hoods2017_web2-01.png
I couldnt find a reference to this fire on Channel 4 or the Herald.
My personal opinion, as a long time resident of Fields Corner is that Gaston St is Roxbury.
And can anyone with certainty define the border between Dorchester and Mattapan?
Why I went with Roxbury
It's to the left of Blue Hill Avenue, which I've been using as my de-facto border in that particular stretch. The issue, I think, is that it's also 02121, which a lot of people think is a Dorchester Zip code, even though it reaches almost to Egleston Square (where you then run into the issue of where to put the line between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain).
USPS says Roxbury
USPS shows this as 02121 which is a Roxbury zip code.
Any word on the cause yet?
Any word on the cause yet? That house went into foreclosure a few years ago and a conveyance of ownership went back and forth. The their was an Execution slapped on it and recorded with Suffolk Registry. Also 2 old mortgages still outstanding. Doesn't look good.
Not yet
I just updated the original post - investigators are still looking.