MA Firefighter Christopher Roy ID’d As Victim Killed Battling Sunday Worcester Blaze

WORCESTER, MA. (THECOUNT) — Christopher Roy has been identified as the firefighter killed early Sunday morning while battling a blaze in Worcester.

Roy, 36, died after becoming trapped on the second floor of a burning apartment building in the 100 block of Lowell Street, in Worcester Sunday.

A second firefighter was also transported to the hospital and is in stable condition, Lavoie said. source

Firefighters efforts to save Roy from the rapidly deteriorating conditions “were heroic,” Lavoie said.

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Worcester is a city in central Massachusetts. The EcoTarium is a science and nature museum, with a digital planetarium, animal exhibits and a narrow-gauge railway. The vast collection at the central Worcester Art Museum includes Roman mosaics, Impressionist paintings and medieval armor. Now a museum, Salisbury Mansion is an 18th-century Georgian-style building, restored to its 1830s appearance, according to wikipedia.