Basement erupts in flames on Cushing Avenue in Dorchester, flames travel up building
![Cushing Avenue fire](https://www.universalhub.com/files/styles/main_image/public/images/2023/cushingfire2.jpg?itok=BupaCaVo)
Boston firefighters are at 105 Cushing Ave., which has multiple apartments and a day care, where what is now a four-alarm fire was reported shortly before 12:50 p.m. Firefighters were ordered out of the building.
The fire rose from the basement to the first and second floors. At 2:05 p.m., Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke, now on the scene, ordered a fourth alarm as firefighters were ordered away from two sides of the building after they gave signs of being about to collapse.
View from BFD drone:
![Drone view of the fire](/images/2023/cushingdrone.jpg)
![Smoke from the fire](/images/2023/cushingfire3.jpg)
A 2nd alarm has been ordered fire in the basement,heavy smoke conditions throughout the large building pic.twitter.com/i119aF9zna
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) April 4, 2023
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