AMHERST — Firefighters from throughout the area were battling a raging fire on Olympia Drive Friday night into Saturday morning, a blaze that displaced as many as 230 people and spread to multiple buildings.

The fire was originally reported Friday at 8:19 p.m. by callers to 911 reporting that a four-story building under construction was on fire, according to the Amherst Fire Department. First arriving units found a building that was under construction fully involved in fire, with fire spreading to the nearby buildings at 47 and 57 Olympia Place.

According to the Amherst Fire Department, there were multiple explosions, likely from fuel tanks on the construction site, and one construction crane collapsed.

The Amherst Fire Department was still working at the scene of the apartment complex well into Saturday morning when it reported that one four-story building under construction had collapsed and other nearby building were still burning and partially collapsed.

The fire attack was hampered by poor water pressure in the area and the blaze was still burning “out of control,” as of 3:30 a.m., Amherst Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren reported. There were not reported injuries at that time. A second and third alarm were sounded for mutual aid on Friday night and multiple towns from Hampshire, Hamden and Franklin County were on scene fighting the fire. Tanker trucks also were requested from numerous communities to help boost the water supply.

The Red Cross, MEMA, and the State Fire Marshall investigators were on scene and a task force was requested from the state fire mobilization network to send additionalunits to the fire scene to relieve the crews that have been there since the fire was firstreported, according to the Amherst Fire Department.