02/25/2019 - STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS (NOFOLK COUNTY) - Around 1400 hours on the afternoon of Monday, February 25, 2019 the Stoughton Fire Department responded to a reported house fire at 58-60 Prospect Street. Companies arrived to find heavy smoke showing from a 2.5-story wood framed multiple family apartment building. A working fire was requested, followed shortly there after by a request for a second alarm assignment. Crews were heavily engaged in an aggressive interior attack with multiple hand lines as additional crews worked the exterior of the building to open up. With high sustained winds and wind gusts in the area reportedly in the range of 50 MPH, the fire was pushed through the building faster than the firefighters could extinguish it. Interior firefighters reported fire on all floors of the 2.5-story wood framed dwelling, and the decision was made to evacuate all firefighters from the building and go to defensive operations. Shortly after companies were pulled from the building the third alarm was struck. The third alarm brought in multiple mutual aid companies to the scene to work, and to coverage assignments. Three ladder pipes were put into operation, with multiple other large hand lines stretched and operating outside of the building. Fire conditions quickly deteriorated and pushed fire throughout the building through the roof. The building was a total loss. No injuries were reported on the scene.
