A fire tore through a home in Massachusetts. Good Samaritans described their efforts to alert the residents.
A fire tore through a home early Friday in Bridgewater , Massachusetts , and destroyed two vehicles that were parked in the driveway.The fire started at 1:30 a.m. at the home on Crescent Street . Heavy flames were seen engulfing a section of the home and the vehicles.
Eduardo Alvarenga, who was passing by Crescent Street with a friend, Jamie Marie Sheridan, described their efforts to alert the residents.'I pull in the driveway, and she runs up to the door and is knocking and saying, 'Hello! Hello!' I'm in the car beeping, trying to get their attention,' Alvarenga said. Sheridan was also the one who called 911 to report the fire. The fire happened steps from the town's police department. A police officer ran to the home, banged on the door, and was able to alert the residents.'A cop was running from right over here, and he came with his flashlight, and he was banging on the door with a stick,' Alvarenga said.That officer was later identified as Officer Marc-Stephen Hutchins. He woke one of the residents by knocking on the door and went inside to wake the others. 'I knocked on the house door several times. Eventually, one resident came down ... I told him, 'Hey, your house is on fire!' So he stepped out, looked at the house, and he said some words and went back in the house,' he said. 'I asked him who else lived there, and he said, two new tenants just moved in. So I went upstairs with him, started knocking on bedroom doors.'Hutchins also helped the residents put two cats into a carrier before they evacuated safely.Video below: Flames engulf homeFirefighters worked for hours to extinguish the flames, focusing on the collapsed garage where the fire persisted underneath. Neighbors reported hearing a boom during the fire, and police said that containers of gas in the garage exploded. The garage ultimately collapsed. 'There was this immense fireball in the sky,' one neighbor said. The farmhouse, which neighbors said was part of the original Hoke farm, held historical significance in the area. 'This all used to be a big farm, and this was the original Hogg farmhouse, so people in Bridgewater will be sad to see this go,' a neighbor said. Alvarenga reflected on the destruction and his decision to help. 'It looks a lot worse than I thought it would be,' he said. 'I'm happy that I could help a little bit because with the fire the way it was, minutes matter.'The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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