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Canton Fire Department Responds to Three-Alarm Fire in Stoughton Tuesday Afternoon

Canton assisted the Stoughton Fire Department with the blaze.

departments, along with fire departments from nearly ten other towns including the , responded to a three-alarm fire Tuesday. The house fire on Central Street in Stoughton started just before 1:00 p.m. No injuries have been reported, but there is extensive damage to the second and third floors of the home.

The fire was initially discovered on the rear-porch of a single-family home at 1832 Central Street in Stoughton, but at this time, fire officials are not certain that is where the fire started. The cause of the fire is still unknown and is still under investigation.

Officials arrived on scene to find a heavy fire at the rear of the home, according to Captain Douglas Campbell of the Stoughton Fire Department. The fire then expanded to the second floor and the top floor and entered the building through the windows, Campbell said.

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It is unclear at this time whether people were in the home at the time of the fire, however, Campbell said everyone was accounted for.

Campbell said the homeowners had a concern for animals in the house. He said a Sharon firefighter brought out a live cat from the house and delivered the animal to the homeowners.

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There are no known injuries to any humans or animals at this time. One firefighter from Avon was transported to the hospital for precautionary reasons, Campbell said.

Campbell does estimate that the second and third floors of the home are a “total loss.”

Fire crews had to battle a heavy fire on the third floor and also had to deal with the heat.

“The exterior heat didn’t really affect the work they did inside, but there was an extreme amount of fire in the building which made it extremely difficult for them,” Campbell said.

Crews from Sharon, Easton, Canton, Avon, Randolph, Holbrook, Foxborough and Walpole responded to the three-alarm blaze. A ladder from Norwood was sent to cover at Station 1.

Campbell said the crews did “a great job” and were “really aggressive inside.”

As the crews were working to put out the fire, Central Street was blocked off from its intersection with West Street to its intersection with Mill Street. Along this part of Central Street, fire and police vehicles lined both sides of the road.

The fire was located in close proximity to the Hansen Elementary School in Stoughton. The school was essentially vacant at the time of the fire, however, according to Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marguerite Rizzi, since the whole school went on a field trip to Camp Westwoods on Tuesday.

Because of this, no decision needed to be made whether or not to evacuate the building.

Still, custodians shut all windows in the school and fans were brought in to cool classrooms when the children arrived back at the school at 1:45 p.m., when it was deemed that the fire was under control and it was safe to return, Dr. Rizzi said.

The initial call for the fire came from an off-duty firefighter, Jeff Ledin, who happens to work across the street at Century 21 C&S Properties. He reported that the rear porch was on fire of the 1832 Central Street home.

This was the on Central Street to which Stoughton Fire responded on Tuesday. The two incidents appear unrelated.


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