METHUEN — Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm blaze at 4 Darrens Way this evening and saved a dog that hid in the basement.
Firefighters received the call about the fire at 6:32 p.m. An off-duty Lawrence firefighter had spotted the blaze. He rushed to the home, kicked in the front door and shouted to see if anybody was there, said Deputy fire Chief Charles Ripley.
Nobody was home at the time, and nobody was injured, Ripley said.
Firefighters are investigating to determine the cause of the fire, Ripley said. Ripley didn’t have a damage estimate, but the large yellow house was heavily damaged and had holes in the roof and wall.
“There’s nothing,” said Kelsey Surette, 20, who lives there with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend.
She said the dog, an Argentinian Mastiff named Cali, would be Ok.
