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Fire in walls in downtown office tower brings firefighters

One Washington Place evacuation scene.

The scene at One Boston Place. Photo by BostonBethy.

Firefighters quickly contained a fire in pipes on the fifth floor at One Boston Place on Washington Street downtown this afternoon, but dealing with the smoke forced the evacuation of the 44-story office building.

The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries. The building houses about 2,700 workers, some of whom had to walk all the way down because the department was using the building's elevators to ferry firefighters up and down.

Before she evacuated with co-workers from the 40th floor, Jan snapped this photo:

From the top of One Boston Place
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according to Boston.com, it sounds like pipes were being installed, ie plumbing torches/welding, and the insulation caught fire?

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