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Five firefighters injured battling trash fire at Charlestown recycling facility
By adamg on Thu, 09/17/2015 - 11:30am
Firefighters with soaking trash. Photo by BFD.
A stubborn trash fire that erupted around 11:20 a.m. at Casella Waste Systems off Rutherford Avenue sent five firefighters to the hospital with injuries, the Boston Fire Department reports.
Firefighters recruited the facility's front-end loaders to try to separate the piles of trash so they could attack the fire, which went to two alarms.
Firefighters on the roof of the building (Photo by Phil Lyons):
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Comments
awful
Some days I wouldn't want to be a firefighter, but good work guys (and more power to you!)
But man, that HAS to be one stinky job... burning rubbish.. bleh!