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Cleanup continues at scene of 7-alarm fire in Chelsea

By Travis Andersen

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 02, 2012

The three-story duplex on Chelsea Street in East Boston that was badly damaged in a fire Sunday, displacing dozens of people, could be salvageable, a city official said today. “I wouldn’t call [the building] safe, but it could be made safe,” Bryan Glascock, the city’s acting commissioner of inspectional services, said at the scene. As he spoke, workers were continuing to clear debris from the 7-alarm blaze at 328-330 Chelsea St., which caused the roof and much of the third floor to collapse and left 30 people homeless, including seven children.

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