The fire was blamed on an overloaded electrical circuit.
WARE - Firefighters are on the scene of an apartment building fire at 50 East St., along a section of Route 9 just past the center of town.
The fire, reported just before 8 p.m., was extinguished before 10 p.m. but firefighters were still at the scene cleaning up, according to fire officials.
The Pioneer Valley chapter of the American Red Cross was dispatching a team to offer assistance at the scene. Five people were displaced by the fire.
CBS 3 Springfield, the media partner of The Republican and Masslive.com, reports from the scene that the fire caused up to $20,000 damage. A preliminary investigation is leading investigators to term it an accidental fire caused by an overloaded circuit.
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