The fire that broke out at a triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spread to a second building Friday night, killing two people, has now claimed the life of a third person. And family members tell us all of the victims were related. Worcester firefighters responded around 7:30 p.m. Friday to 11 and 13 Jaques Avenue for two triple-deckers on fire.
The fire that broke out at a triple-decker in Worcester, Massachusetts, and spread to a second building Friday night, killing two people, has now claimed the.
Woodrow Adams, Sr., 71, leaped from the flame-filled three-decker as crews tried to reach the upper floors.
Adams Sr., passed away at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Saturday while being treated for smoke inhalation and for injuries he suffered jumping from the building.
“If we could have saved him, we would have saved him,” Deputy Fire Chief Martin Dyer, department spokesman, said Monday.
The presence of Adams Sr. was not known to firefighters until he jumped, Dyer said.
“We had a ladder up to the third floor looking through the windows,” Dyer said. “We had crews trying to make it into the third floor and we were fighting exterior fire and interior fire in two, three-deckers.”