Residents left homeless after Springfield blaze

The fire was reported around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on Earl Street in the city's Forest Park neighborhood.

07/21/11 Springfield- Republican Photo by Mark M.Murray- The Springfield Fire Department unveiled two new fire truck thursday during a press conference at the Raymond M. Sullivan Public Safety Complex. The Springfield Fire Department badge on the door of one of the new firetrucks.

SPRINGFIELD -- A fire reported around 7:30 p.m. Saturday at a two-family home on Earl Street in Springfield's Forest Park neighborhood left more than a dozen people homeless, according to a published report.

Around 13 people were forced from their home after a fire broke out in a second-floor bedroom, according to a 22News report.

Springfield Fire Department spokesman Dennis G. Leger told the TV station that it took firefighters around 15 minutes to extinguish the blaze.

There was no word of any injuries in the fire, the cause of which was not immediately known.

Earl Street runs north-south between Johnson and Orange streets.

More information will be posted on MassLive.com as it becomes available.

THE MAP BELOW shows Earl Street in the Forest Park section of Springfield, where a house fire forced around 13 people from their burning home:

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