2 Alarm Fire Heavily Damages Fall River 3 Decker

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In the Early morning hours of April third Fall River firefighters were dispatched to a Still Alarm at 56 Cherry Street. While companies were enroute fire alarm notified the responding chief of police units on scene confirming a fire. Car 2 arrived shortly after and issued a working fire on his arrival as heavy fire conditions on division 2 quickly extended upwards. A aggressive interior attack was engaged with reports of possible entrapment on floor 2, an additional engine and truck was requested. Heavy fire burned upwards from floor 2 into and thru the cockloft forcing interior companies to be withdrawn. Ladder 4 set up a large stream elevated master stream, as other crews utilized multiple handlines and a blitz gun the fire burned for nearly three hours running front to back in the cockloft and dropping down into unburned sections of floor 3 spreading the fire thru the building. The primary and secondary searches proved no entrapment, crews were on scene into the morning picking up and overhauling.