No one was hurt but at least six people were displaced after a fire tore through at least two buildings, including a church, in Lynn Friday night, according to fire officials and media reports.
The fire originated in a building at 60 Estes St., the Lynn Fire Department reported in a Facebook post Friday night. The Lynn Item reported it started at about 8:30 p.m. Google Maps shows that is a neighborhood full of triple deckers.
The fire eventually jumped to a church behind it at 10 Chestnut St. In several videos posted by media, that church, Iglesia Evangelica Congregacional, was brought down to rubble by the end of the night. Google listed the church as temporarily closed Saturday morning.
“When we arrived, the winds were so fierce, the embers were blowing across the main street here,” Lynn Fire Chief Dan Sullivan told NBC10 Boston.
Sullivan also told 7News no one was hurt in the multi-building fire but at least six people were displaced.
At least five alarms were struck, with neighboring fire departments helping knock down the fire. The Daily Item reported at least 20 fire trucks at the scene.
Video from NBC10 showed a multistory residential building with fire shooting out of the top floor while behind it, an entire church building was engulfed in flames and fire department ladder trucks were shooting water into the buildings from every angle.
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