Fire heavily damages apartment building in Central Falls, eight displaced

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. -- Eight people were forced to flee their three apartments after a two-alarm fire swept through their three-story building around 7 p.m Tuesday.

Fire Capt. Richard Botelho said fire fighters from Pawtucket, North Providence, and Lincoln came to assist the firefighters from Central Falls in quelling the blaze at 41-43 Hendricks St. He said the blaze burned out much of the third floor and and left smoke and water damage to the two others.

The origin and the cause of the fire were yet to be determined by the fire marshal, Botelho said, and all eight people who had been living in the structure were to be put up by the Red Cross.