A firefighter was injured while battling a blaze that ripped through the top floors of a Main Street apartment building just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 2.

Wareham Fire Chief Robert McDuffy said the firefighter received an electrical shock while working on a ladder truck. The firefighter, whose name was not released in recognition of his privacy, was transported to Tobey Hospital and then to the burn unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he spent the night.

The building, located at 298 Main Street, houses several apartments. Ten residents are currently displaced, according to Wareham Fire. No residents were injured.

Wareham Fire Department investigator John Kelley determined that the fire was caused by a light fixture, McDuffy said.

The blaze caused about $400,000 in damage to the three-and-a-half story, wood frame building, according to fire officials. The third floor was heavily damaged, while the second floor suffered moderate damage. Firefighters spent more than six hours at the location.

Firefighters were nearly immediately on-scene, as the building is located almost directly across the street from the fire station.

The blaze was reported by Wareham Police Officer Dean Decas, who discovered flames coming from the building as he drove down Main Street, McDuffy said.

"With [Decas'] good work, we were able to get in there so there wasn't any further extension, even though it was a very serious fire," said McDuffy.

Gateway Gold & Pawn is located on the ground floor of the building and was open at the time of the fire.

"We were open for business and all of a sudden we heard the fire alarm going off," said Sara Forrest, who owns the pawn shop.

Forrest's father, Dominic Cammarano, who owns the building and was also in the pawn shop at the time, said he could see the flames shooting out of the top floor as soon as he exited the building.

The first floor of the building was vacant. The family was in the process of moving the pawn shop to the first floor, said Cammarano, who serves on the town's Finance Committee.

On-lookers at the scene said smoke could be seen from as far away as Cranberry Highway in East Wareham and in the Swifts Beach neighborhood off of Route 6.

In addition to the Wareham Fire, the Onset, Marion, and Carver fire departments responded to the scene. Wareham EMS and Wareham Police also assisted at the scene.

The fire shut down traffic on Main Street from Center Street to Sawyer Street.