Lauren Dworkin fled her Olympia Place apartment in Amherst Friday night, her phone the only thing in her hands as her belongings burned.

“Everything I had was in that room,” said Dworkin, 20, a junior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who lived in the off-campus housing complex. “It’s been hard to accept it’s just all suddenly gone.”

Dworkin is among roughly 232 residents, most of them students, displaced by the fire. No injuries have been reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The town of Amherst lifted a state of emergency declared earlier in the weekend at 5 p.m. Sunday. The fire was contained, with a few spots being monitored, officials said in a statement.

“No community can ever be prepared for this level of emergency,” Town Manager Paul Bockel

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