Boston firefighers battled a fire in Dorchester that broke out in a multi-family building Wednesday night, according to the Boston Fire Department.

The third alarm fire engulfed all three floors of the building on Beckett Street.

The Boston Fire Department said crews were able to knock it down eventually, but all of the home’s porches were burned through.

Witnesses said it sounded like a series of explosions.

“We heard screaming, and a loud flash and light from our kitchen window and we came across and looked out and saw the building across from us in flames,” one woman described. “It looked like mushrooms almost, like mushrooms of fire exploding from it and just so much light. It looked like it was going to go towards the building behind it and the power lines started catching fire.”

See Full Page