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3 Residents, 3 Police Officers Injured In Brockton Fire

Cause Of Fire Under Investigation


POSTED: 4:15 pm EST December 5, 2007
UPDATED: 4:41 pm EST December 5, 2007


BROCKTON, Mass. -- Three Brockton residents are being treated for potentially life-threatening injuries after a fire ripped through a home on Moraine Street.
Brockton Fire Department Captain Robert McGinn said the victims mainly suffered from smoke inhalation. They were rushed to nearby hospitals for treatment and evaluation.
Three police officers were slightly injured.
One of the injured residents was in the bedroom where the fire started.
Two others were in the same first floor of the two-story building when the flames broke out.
McGinn said there was no immediate word on the cause of the fire.
It's unclear how the police officers were injured.
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Ex-councilor dies in fire;
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http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/12/06/news/news/news10.txt



By Maria Papadopoulos, Enterprise staff writer

BROCKTON— From every conversation Richard Sergi had with his longtime friend and former City Councilor George R. Papas, he learned something.

“Whether it was about politics, or history, or government, or music, or theater, Hemingway or Tennessee Williams, he just knew everything about everything,” Sergi, executive director of the Brockton Housing Authority, fondly said of Papas Wednesday night. “He really was a renaissance man.”

Papas, 74, died from injuries sustained in a fire at his Moraine Street home Wednesday afternoon.

A former City Council president, Papas was among seven people, including two of his family members and four police officers, injured in the blaze reported at 2:36 p.m. Wednesday.

Papas was initially taken to Brockton Hospital by ambulance and then transferred to a Boston hospital, where he later died.

“It's just awful,” said state Sen. Robert Creedon, D-Brockton, who was a friend of Papas for nearly four decades.

David Summers, Papas' son-in-law, was transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he was in intensive care Wednesday night, according to the hospital.

Papas' wife of 49 years, Carole, 72, was taken by ambulance to Brockton Hospital, where she was listed in good condition Wednesday night, according to the hospital.

Three police officers and one state trooper were treated for minor injuries. The officers, who were first to respond to the fire, had gone into the house to rescue people trapped inside.

Trooper Shaun Bellao, officer Charles Jarrett and officer Donald MacMillan were treated and released from Brockton Hospital. Officer Steven Pierce was treated at the scene.

Wednesday night, several people described Papas as a caring, responsible and intelligent man who was a devoted Democrat and a dedicated councilor.
“He was one of the smartest guys on the City Council,” said Councilor-at-large Thomas Brophy, who served with Papas on the council in the early 1990s.

Papas, a retired art teacher, taught for several years in Stoughton schools.

He had a long record of involvement in civic affairs. He was active in educational and Democratic organizations, serving as chairman of the Ward 1 Democratic Committee. He also served as an officer of numerous groups, including the Brockton Energy Commission and the Taunton Watershed Association.

Papas, a father of two, served three separate terms as the Ward 1 city councilor over a three-decade span beginning in the 1970s. In 1991, he served as City Council president.

“Government should operate from the neighborhood level up,” Papas said in a June 20, 1999, article in The Enterprise. “As a councilor, you can't wait for people to come to you — you have to go to them and help them solve their problems.”

Creedon said he and Papas both shared “an ongoing concern for representative democracy and a healthy fear of government.”

“George always got involved. He cared,” Creedon said.

When his brother, Michael, ran for state senate in the 1980s, Creedon said he called on two people to help with the campaign — Papas and the late Louis F. Angelo, a former school teacher who represented the area both as a state representative and a Ward 7 city councilor.

“I wish we could clone George Papas and somehow analyze what he was always about and synthesize it into a pill to give to citizens to be as caring about their citizenship as he was,” Creedon said. “He truly was a responsible American.”

Papas was a devoted artist, several said.

In 2001, he earned the “Best of Show” title in a downtown art exhibition.

Born in Boston, Papas moved to Brockton in 1962. He was a graduate of Cathedral High School, Boston State College, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He was a former Fulbright Fellow.

Papas had taken ill in recent years, and was confined to his bed, his friends said.

Wednesday afternoon, firefighters, police, state police and emergency medical personnel responded to 91 Moraine St. after receiving a 911 call that people were trapped.

Before firefighters arrived, several police officers went into the home to help rescue members of the Papas family.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation, fire officials said.

A charred mattress and pillow lay on the front lawn of the two-story house as firefighters worked at the scene Wednesday afternoon.

“It's devastating,” Brophy said. “He was a real good guy.”

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