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Construction workers strike gas main, shut street in Jamaica Plain
By adamg on Thu, 10/18/2012 - 9:14am
Day Street action. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a construction crew doing street work on Day Street struck and punctured a 3-inch gas main outside 67 Day St. around 3:30 p.m. yesterday.
Firefighters tried to evacuate several homes, but nobody was actually home. The pipe was repaired by 5 p.m., the department says. There were no injuries.
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Nobody was home!
What about the women on the front porch?
Someone forget to call
Someone forget to call DigSafe?
This happened as school let
This happened as school let out at the Hennigan Elementary School, the back door of which lets out onto Day Street. Frighteningly and sadly, kids who walk home on Day Street were given zero assistance from the many police, fire and EMT's on site. I got a call from my confused kid who managed to find a way around by the time I got up there. Our responders need to do better to protect kids particularly when dangerous incidents happen adjacent to a school at the time school lets out. I later called E-13 only to be told it was a water main break, not gas, and that kids weren't helped because it happened at shift change and that the police were busy rescuing people from homes. Why they couldn't assign just one or two people to guide the kids who walk home on Day Street is beyond me. I expect more.