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From the City & Region staff at The Boston Globe
14 students displaced after Mission Hill fire
By Caitlin Castello, Globe Correspondent
A two-alarm fire raged through an apartment building in Mission Hill this afternoon, displacing 14 students and causing $500,000 in damage.
The blaze started at about 1 p.m. on the second floor of a building at 64 Louis Prang St. The fire was caused by a short circuit in a power strip, according to a spokesman for the Boston Fire Department.
No one was injured in the blaze in the three-story building. The students attend the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Massachusetts College of Art.
