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2 Firefighters Hurt Battling Framingham House Fire

FRAMINGHAM (CBS) -- Two firefighters were hurt and nearly a dozen people displaced after a fire broke out at a multifamily home in Framingham early Saturday morning.

The blaze started around 5 a.m. at the Weybossett Avenue house. When firefighters arrived, they saw heavy fire and smoke billowing from the house.

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A pair of firefighters were hurt battling a blaze early Saturday morning at a Framingham home on Weybosset Avenue. (WBZ-TV)

Witness Ed Jones told WBZ-TV, "It just started to coming out (of) the doors and the windows and it was engulfed (in flames)."

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Firefighters tackled a fire at a Weybosset Avenue multifamily home in Framingham early Saturday morning. (WBZ-TV)

"(The firefighters) thought they had it under control and it looked like they did," he said. "They cut a hole in the roof and that's when it really started. It was bad."

Both firefighters were taken to a local hospital after suffering non-life threatening injuries.

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A fire broke out at a multifamily home on Weybossett Avenue in Framingham early Saturday morning. (WBZ-TV)

None of the residents were hurt, and 10 of them were displaced after the home was deemed a complete loss, officials say.

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A two-alarm blaze broke out at a multi-family home on Weybossett Avenue in Framingham on Saturday. (WBZ-TV)

The cause of the fire remains under investigation. No additional information was immediately available.

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