Disasters · Dorchester house fireDorchester house fire: Eight rescued by ladder, three hospitalizedWritten November 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM UTCWatchTranscript0:07Firefighters rescued eight people down ladders from a burning home in Dorchester.0:11Three people went to the hospital, and all were expected to make a full recovery.0:15Eleven residents lost the use of their homes, including three children.0:18What started the fire, and when can those families return home?0:21Flames reached all three floors of the house at twenty, four Kerwin Street, and the0:25side of the house next door.0:26Firefighters responded around eight Saturday morning, October thirty-first.0:29The building was a triple decker, a three-story home housing multiple households.0:33Eleven residents were displaced.0:35The Boston Fire Department said that includes eight adults and three children.0:39The Red Cross is helping them after the two.0:41Alarm fire forced them from their homes.0:43Resident Kavaugh Davis was asleep when his son spotted smoke in his room and woke0:47him.0:47Davis then noticed smoke coming from his mother's room.0:50Davis pushed open the partly closed door and found his mother's mattress burning.0:54His mother wasn't in the room.0:55He called nine hundred and eleven and alerted his upstairs neighbors as the flames0:59spread through the building.1:00Fire below trapped people on the second floor.1:03Firefighters reached residents from the rear porch, bringing them down ground1:06ladders at the back of the house.1:08Off duty firefighters helped rescue eight people.1:11District Fire Chief Harry Brienza said.1:13One of the nine hundred and eleven calls came during the cruise shift change.1:16That overlap allowed a doubled response, bringing more firefighters into the rescue1:20effort.1:21Crews used ground ladders to get people out from the rear of the building.1:24The fire had spread through the three story home, and people upstairs had been1:28trapped by flames below.1:36Across the street, neighbor Dana Voronina described what she saw as a very scary1:40picture.1:41Davis focused on having escaped.1:43Davis said, You can always buy everything back.1:45It's not that big of a deal.1:47Just happy that we made it.1:48Eight adults and three children were left displaced that morning.1:51Investigators were still working to determine the cause that evening.1:54Davis's discovery of the burning mattress hasn't explained what ignited the fire.1:58No date has been given for the eleven displaced residents to return home.Read the articleStory timelineHeyDex
