ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (PLYMOUTH COUNTY) - Around 1145 hours on the morning of Tuesday, April 5, 2016 the Abington Fire Department responded to 500 North Quincy Street after they received the box and calls reporting a fire. Abington received automatic mutual aid via a Holbrook ladder to the scene on the line box. Companies arrived to find a small fire on the second floor of the large three story apartment complex. The fire extended up the the third floor. Crews opened up the walls and stretched a line to knock down the fire. The apartment below on floor-1 received water damage. Around noontime, the working fire was requested bringing mutual aid engines from Brockton and Whitman to the scene, and a Rockland engine into cover Abington Fire Headquarters. Chief John Nuttall states that he believes the fire was accidentally started by a plumbers torch in a vacant apartment. The building was evacuated during the incident, leaving many residents to wait outside and in their vehicles in the cold. No injuries were reported.
