Firefighter injured when fighting Stafford brush fire

A Stafford firefighter is recovering from injuries suffered Tuesday when she fell and rolled some 20 feet down a steep slope while battling a brush fire, the chief said.

She remains in Bay State Medical Center in Springfield, David Lucia, chief of Stafford Fire Department No. 1, said Thursday. He hasn’t received any reports of major bones being broken, he said. He declined to release her name.

Firefighters from seven departments in two states fought the brush fire, which burned four acres and came within 100 yards of Riverside Village II apartments at 102 Furnace Ave., Lucia said.

They were called to the fire about 6 p.m. Crews came from Ellington, Union, Willington, Wales, Mass. and Monson,…