Brookline firefighters battle two-alarm blaze near Packard's Corner
Wicked Local A two-alarm fire broke out in a three-story apartment building in Packard's Corner Monday evening, displacing about 30 Brookline residents and filling the sky with black smoke. The Brookline and Boston fire departments responded to the multi-unit apartment building at 16 Hamilton Road shortly after 4 p.m., according to Brookline Fire Department Chief of Operations Keith Flaherty. There, the firefighters found heavy fire conditions on the building's third floor and quickly worked to put out the fire, which extended from the right side of the building to the center, where there w...