A firefighter and a resident were taken to the hospital after a large fire at a multi-family home in Boston on Sunday morning.

It happened around 4:45 a.m. on Centre Street in Dorchester. Officials say that the heavy fire on the rear porches also spread to an adjacent multi-family house. The porches eventually collapsed, but there was no one on them at the time.

One of the many cats that was saved from the house. Boston Fire

Crews were able to save several cats from the residence, but a firefighter and a resident were injured in the fire. They were both taken to nearby Boston hospitals. Boston Police said that the firefighter was injured while on scene and received non-life-threatening injuries that were not related to smoke inhalation. He has since been released.

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