Police: Boston 6-alarm fire started after blast

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

BOSTON (AP) — About a dozen people have been hurt in an apartment building fire in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood that police say may have been started by a resident.

The six-alarm blaze broke out early Monday in the large building on Wardman Street.

Police officials told reporters a man who showed up at Boston Medical Center with burns told officials there that he had tried to blow up his own home.

Residents who escaped the blaze said they heard an explosion in the building at about 1 a.m.

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[David Sky]

1. Updated reports say:

1)About a half dozen people were slightly injured, none seriously, all escaped safely and are being assisted by Red Cross.

2) It is now uncertain if the suspect in question actually lived in the building. This explosion was likely the result of natural gas, (he may have disconnected a gas line to start the blaze).

3)So far, it appears this is an act of a single individual, not any kind of major terrorist plot.

[madokie]

2. Sounds like a meth lab fire to me

Any way you make that shit its dangerous and has the potential of starting a fire that will burn your house down to the ground.

[valerief]

3. Probably was the case. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. My first thought... and I hate making assumptions like that.

[krispos42]

5. Sounds like an insurance fraud plot... n/t

[mopinko]

6. i'm surprised we don't see a LOT more of that.

especially here in chicago.