I'm glad there were no serious injuries and I hope those impacted find housing immediately. The emergency personnel and equipment in Somerville and the surrounding communities are top notch and we're lucky to have them. It looks like the fire spread extremely quickly after it started and was quite intense and yet there were no serious injuries and the fire was contained to a single building.

I was woken up by what turned out to be a news helicopter at 5am, repeatedly flying over my apartment as it circled the scene of the fire. I fully support police and fire helicopters flying anywhere at any time in the interest of public safety, but I really do not think news helicopters should be circling over densely populated areas in the early morning in the interest of gawking at a fire for ratings. Not only did it wake me up, but it caused me to be unnecessarily concerned that perhaps a police helicopter was chasing someone suspected of a crime through my neighborhood. I really hope this doesn't happen again, but I'm not sure who has control of this kind of thing.