VIDEO: Seven people were rescued from a two-family home early Tuesday morning—five of them taken to the hospital with smoke inhalation. “Very scary, very scary,” said one neighbor early Tuesday morning as smoke poured out of a two-family home on Academy Hill Road in Brighton. “I thought it was a dream, I didn’t know exactly what it was coming from until my mother came and woke me up and I wasn’t able to sleep,” said Malkiel Miara, who lives a few houses down from the house that caught fire. Neighbors who go to the same place of worship as the residents in this home ran outside—looking to help. “I saw so many trucks so I decided to try to help and do whatever I could, give them water,” said Miara.
Boston Fire says the fire started in the basement and quickly traveled up. The smoke detectors were going off and the people inside were in the process of getting out when firefighters arrived. “We pulled those people out, five of them went to the hospital with smoke inhalation,” said Patrick Ellis, Chief of Operations for Boston Fire.
