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Neighbors woke to cries, smell of smoke from Allston fire

2 victims remain in the hospital

By Marjorie Nesin

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 24, 2012

A Boston University graduate student awoke Sunday morning, hearing cries for help from neighbors at the Linden Street house that caught fire around 7 a.m., critically injuring one student and displacing seven others. “It’s kind of a college area, so you hear a lot of yelling and you don’t really think anything,’’ said Steve Bastin, a graduate student who completed his mathematical finance studies in December.

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