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Jarvis said the Harvard effort was conceived at a meeting with Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 Wednesday at Cambridge City Hall.
Reeves said many of the fire victims are recent immigrants without relatives in the area and may not have friends to turn to for assistance. No one was injured in the fire, which gutted a five-story apartment building and severely damaged another.
At the meeting, which was attended by about 40 community leaders and concerned citizens, Reeves and Carl F. Barron, president of the Central Square Association, announced they had formed the Central Square Fire Committee, which will work to aid those displaced last weekend.
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 praised the attempts of Cantabrigians to help the victims of the eight-alarm fire, which left 100 people homeless. "This [fire] has been our largest tragedy in over a decade, in terms of families involved," he said.
Reeves cited efforts by the Red Cross and the Cambridge school system to collect clothing for displaced families. He also thanked two local restaurants for serving meals to the victims.