CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - A person was pulled from a burning apartment building by firefighters who used a ladder truck to reach a third-floor window after a fire broke out overnight in Cambridge.

Crews responding to a reported structure fire on Kirkland Street just before midnight Saturday quickly ordered a second alarm after finding flames in a multi-family building, according to the Cambridge Fire Department.

During the firefight, a person was rescued from a third-floor window via aerial ladder and an unconscious cat was rescued, given oxygen, and successfully revived by EMS.

The fire was quickly contained and extinguished.

There were no reported injuries and several residents have been displaced.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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