Cyran v. Town of Ware

By their amended complaint filed in the Superior Court, the plaintiffs sought damages from the defendant, the town of Ware, under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, G. L. c. 258, § 2 (1990 ed.), for the alleged gross negligence of the town’s firefighters. The amended complaint states the following. On July 15, 1989, a fire broke out in a two-family wood frame residential building owned by the plaintiffs at 35 South Street in Ware. The Ware fire department was called; its firefighters responded and fought the fire, but they did so “grossly negligently, unskillfully and carelessly . . . [and]…