Crime & Safety
Firefighters Rescue 2 from Burning Eliot Street Building
A three-alarm blaze tore through a home at 240 Eliot St. Wednesday morning.
When fire trucks pulled up to a burning home on Eliot Street Wednesday morning, they saw a person hanging out of a third-story window.
“The fire was on the second floor,” Milton Fire Chief Jack Grant said.
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the three-alarm fire at 240 Eliot St. that officials received calls about at 10 a.m., but the home was severely damaged.
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The victim spotted at the third story window was rescued by aerial ladder, but there was another victim inside.
A fire official rescued from that person from a second-floor bedroom.
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There was no immediate word on the condition of the victims; both were transported to area hospitals, Grant said.
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