Overview
- A woman in her 60s rescued from a three-alarm fire at 417 South St. in Southbridge on Monday died after being airlifted to a Boston hospital.
- Officials reported no audible smoke alarms at the Southbridge scene, noting it was the eighth Massachusetts home-fire death this year in a residence without working alarms.
- Investigators identified multiple accidental, kitchen-area potential ignition points in the Southbridge fire as multi-agency inquiries continue.
- In Salem on Tuesday, a 62-year-old man was found on the third floor of a two-family home at 18 Roslyn St. and later died at a hospital after a second-alarm response.
- Both cases are under investigation by local fire and police departments with State Police assigned to the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the respective district attorneys’ offices.