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Community helping Rochester residents displaced by apartments fire ROCHESTER — The community is rallying around the six adults and eight children displaced by Friday’s three-alarm fire on Lafayette Street. The 61 Lafayette St. apartment fire, which fire investigators have attributed to a cooking fire, caused significant damage to all three of the building’s units Friday, rendering them uninhabitable for the foreseeable future. Community members have since created GoFundMe and Facebook on...

ROCHESTER — A three-alarm fire displaced 14 people and heavily damaged a three-story, three-unit apartment building on Lafayette Street Friday. Rochester Assistant Fire Chief Tim Wilder said the fire at 61 Lafayette St. posed various challenges because the building’s balloon construction allowed the fire to spread from the first floor up the building’s walls into the attic. “It took a lot of extra staff and effort to expose the fire in order to get it out and save the roof,” said Wild...