WOBURN, Mass. — Three people were hospitalized, including a bedridden woman who was rescued from a burning apartment building in Woburn on Friday morning.
Neighbors scrambled to help the woman, who was heard calling for help from a second-floor apartment after the fire broke out at the Bradford Arms Condominiums off North Warren Street.
“Some people that got out on this side heard through the open window, the woman in there who’s bedridden asking for help,” tenant Michael Meschisen.
Woburn Fire Captain Bill Stukey said those neighbors had pulled the woman from her unit before firefighters arrived.
“A couple of the guys were able to get up onto the porch, get in through the slider,” Stukey said. “They went in the back and crawled through the smoke and actually dragged her out. They did a good job.”
The woman rescued suffered burns, while two people who live next door were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
“People jumped to action and helped out,” Meschisen said.
The second-alarm fire prompted a response from the Reading, Burlington, and Stoneham fire departments as well, according to Stukey.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The Red Cross is now helping people that were living in two of the units at Bradford Arms Condominiums.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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