Fast-moving Dorchester fire leaves a dozen homeless

A fast-moving four-alarm fire torched the rear porches of a three-story apartment building in Dorchester tonight, forcing a crowd of frightened residents out into the cold and leaving about 30 people homeless, a fire official said.

First arriving crews had heavy fire on the rear porches and so they went to the second alarm, and rapidly went to a third and a fourth, Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said. It just rolled sideways across the porches, which were all wooden.

Boston firefighters responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a porch fire on Washington Street at 7:05 p.m., MacDonald said.

Three brick buildings, which housed nine apartments, suffered an estimated $750,000 in damage, he said.

The fire was extinguished shortly before 8 p.m.. There were no reported injuries and about 30 people were displaced as a result of the fire, MacDonald said.

Fire officials are still investigating what sparked the blaze.

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Fast-moving Dorchester fire leaves a dozen homeless