Firefighters worked on 5-alarm fire on Calumet Street in the Mission Hill section of Boston yesterday morning while a woman tried to break through the fire line and rescue her dog.
(PHOTOS BY ARAM BOGHOSIAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (above, BELOW left))
Dozens homeless, 1 dead in state fires
Wintry conditions hamper efforts
Firefighters worked on 5-alarm fire on Calumet Street in the Mission Hill section of Boston yesterday morning while a woman tried to break through the fire line and rescue her dog.
(PHOTOS BY ARAM BOGHOSIAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE (above, BELOW left))
Three major fires throughout the state yesterday left an elderly Lunenburg woman dead, dozens in Boston homeless, and four Somerville businesses destroyed, officials said. Although the cause of each remain under investigation, fire officials said the crush of wintry weather - which brought wind, snow, and power outages - made battling the fires more challenging. The fire killed a pit bull, but at least 22 cats along with two birds, two dogs, and two turtles were rescued.
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