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October 16, 2007

Occupants safely escape Providence fire/ Photo

Journal photo / Bill Murphy
A Providence firefighter breaks-up the siding while fighting a fire at this home at 146 Courtland Street in the city’s Federal Hill neighborhood this morning.

PROVIDENCE -- The five occupants of a three-story building in the city’s Federal Hill neighborhood escaped unhurt from a fire this morning.

A call came in at 11:19 a.m. for a fire at 146 Courtland St. The fire was under control by 11:47, according to James Taylor, chief of communications for the Providence Fire Department.

When firefighters arrived, they saw found the second floor of a three-story multifamily wood-framed house engulfed in flames.

Unlike yesterday’s fire, however, no one was injured today.

Taylor says the building was occupied, when the call came in, but everyone got out safely. The Red Cross was called, but he is not sure how many people were displaced.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

An earlier version of the story incorrectly reported the fire as being on the third floor.

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