Firefighters arrived at 88 Lewin St. to find smoke filling the basement and fire crawling up the side of the clothes drier.
The good news, firefighters say, is that the four people who had been inside the house were waiting outside when Engine 6 pulled up.
Within moments the fire was out.
The crew of Engine 6 dropped down through a layer of 1,000 degree heat to get to the basement floor and begin an interior attack, killing the flames at their base Monday at 9:30 a.m.
“It looks like it started to the left of the drier,” said Fire Capt. Neil Furtado, a department spokesman. “It is still undetermined as the origin of the fire.”
The basement was filled with smoke and smoke rose through the rest of the single family home, Furtado said.