Fire burns out family in Roslindale
By adamg - 3/17/09 - 2:12 pm
A fire that broke out around 3 p.m. pretty much gutted half of a two-family house at 46 June St. off Blue Ledge Drive.
Firefighters snaked hoses from the Beech Street side of the street down a short dropoff to the house.
Although the fire appeared contained to just one unit, Boston TV stations dispatched helicopters and cameramen to the normally quiet street.
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Big fire, it seems
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Well, it was a fire, at any rate
Not to minimize the impact on the residents, which I'm sure is terrible, but it must have been a slow news day at Action News Central - the firefighters didn't even have to cut through the roof.
For awhile, traffic was being blocked from going down Beech just past the Bates School, which, among other things, really annoyed this one guy who, when I asked him what was going on (this was when I was still trying to find the scene) started complaining about the detour.
What a horrible thing!
Here's hoping the residents of that burned-out house are alive and OK.
June Street Fire
I have a photo up on my blog of the June Street fire. two children were home alone when the fire broke out and called 911
Thanks for the update
And am glad the kids are OK.
You do get around!
Aha!
OK.
The kids were 4 and 6 and they were playing with a lighter
But one called 911, the Globe reports.
And that would, of course, explain the interest of the TV stations.
Kids and lighters
I swear, they have some internal programming that makes them grab the flame-making items as soon as parents leave the room/area/house! I remember my friends were like that when I was a young kid - hey, let's grab the lighter and go in the garage and set stuff on fire!
That's why, as a parent, I simply didn't have lighters anywhere but buried in the camping gear and in a locked box on a high shelf over the fireplace. Of course I caught my kids trying to get at these things on more than one occasion because kids like firey things. All the obstacles simply gave me more time to catch them.
I'm glad the kids got out okay and reported the fire in time to save the neighboring structures ... but this is yet another lesson about why people generally don't leave small children alone - their hands are way busier and more able than their sense of risk!