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A Boston firefighter was injured and 15 people were displaced after a fire burned through a Roxbury triple-decker home Sunday night.

Firefighters battled flames for three hours after all residents safely exited the duplex.

At one point, flames were shooting from the roof of the five-story building. Crews were able to stop the fire from spreading to the lower floors.

The fire started late Tuesday night at a building on the corner of Northampton Street and Reed Street in Roxbury.

A mobile crane extending out more than 70 feet was moving some wooden trusses along the second floor of building at a construction site at East Cottage Street Tuesday morning when it tipped over onto the second level. There were no injuries reported. The crane, owned by BC Crane Corp., was parked on the East Cottage Street side of the site at the corner of Dorchester Avenue.

For municipal employees in Boston, pay varied widely.

Racial slur found etched into window at Massachusetts elementary school; Police seek help from public MassLive.com 2/26/2021 Jackson Cote, masslive.com Authorities seek the public’s help after a racial slur was found faintly etched into the outside of a window at a Massachusetts elementary school Thursday, according to police. The slur was reported to Sharon Police Officer Michael Hocking, the town’s school resource officer, after it was found on the outside window at the ...