WESTFIELD — No one was injured in a two-alarm house fire on Howard Street Friday evening that was caused by improper disposal of smoking materials.

According to Deputy Fire Chief Chris King, at 7:27 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5, the regional dispatch center alerted first responders to a multifamily home built in 1800 that was on fire.

Within four minutes, Engines 3, 4 and 5 with Tower 1, manned by firefighters arrived and found a fire on the wooden structure’s outside porch that had migrated to the home’s rear apartment area and attic, King said Monday.

At 7:42 p.m., a second bell was struck and all of the department’s resources were sent to battle the fire, which was under control within 30 minutes, King said.

Most of the damage, he said, was in non-living spaces in the home and that there wa

See Full Page