5-alarm fire destroys Hyde Park church; injures two

By adamg - 8/17/06 - 8:01 pm

The fire broke out around 7 p.m. and pretty quickly destroyed both the All Grace Harvest Church and a three decker attached to it at 858 Hyde Park Ave., near American Legion Highway. Police blocked off a wide swath around the fire scene for hours - traffic was blocked at Canterbury Street on both Hyde Park Avenue and American Legion Highway.

Channel 4 reports two were injured - one a firefighter; 15 evacuated.

Will lives about a quarter-mile away and reports:

... When the house began to fill with smoke I started closing windows but it kept seeping in no matter what I did. ...

This was the second major fire on Hyde Park Avenue today; around 2 a.m., a two-alarm fire broke out in one of the stores across the street from the Forest Hills T stop (note to Channel 7: That is not Hyde Park and it's not a strip mall).

Photos taken from Grew Hill in Roslindale; you could see and smell the smoke at Washington Street and Metropolitan Avenue.

Comments

Hyde Park or Roslindale?

By Ron Newman - 8/18/06 - 8:27 am

#1

The Herald's story today calls it a Roslindale fire. The Globe says Fire guts Hyde Park church.

I'd call it Hyde Park

By adamg - 8/18/06 - 8:35 am

#2

Hyde Park Avenue does go through Roslindale, but I thought it was farther north, like past Canterbury Street (plus, the church Web site says Hyde Park).

Roslindale: Boston's Most Nebulous Neighborhood.