Actually, the word "hid" was used in the above article:
Quoted and BBM:
What did authorities find in that BHA apartment?
Police and fire reports offer contradictory accounts of what first responders actually found at the scene.
The Boston Fire Department report, obtained by the
Herald, alleges that an adult
hid the four children from first responders in a back bedroom.
Lara alleged that "unsubstantiated stories" about an incident in a BHA apartment "stoked homophobic and transphobic rhetoric."
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