A large number of residents of a Fall River apartment building were displaced after a fire broke out Tuesday night.
According to Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon, crews responded to Borden Apartments at the corner of Borden and Fourth streets around 10 p.m. and arrived to find a third-floor unit fully engulfed.
“There were flames top to bottom, left to right,” Bacon said. “When my first attack crew got up there, he reported that there were flames coming out the door into the hallway.”
“I heard the fire alarm going off and I opened the door, and the hallway was black, full of smoke,” one resident recalled. “I’ve never been through anything like this. I’m only 19, this is my first apartment, so I was just freaking out.”
Firefighters were able to get the flames under control and keep them from spreading to other areas of the building, Bacon added.