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Charlestown house burns
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Local 718 reports a fire broke out at 33 Brighton St. shortly after 10 p.m. Everybody got out OK.
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Water fire in the Harbor
Local 718 reports a barge fire in Boston Harbor out past Castle Island. Both Massport and Boston firefighters responded to the fire, which crews on one of the two tugs pushing the barge were able to extinguish.
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Fire in Roxbury
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Fire reported around 4 p.m. in the second floor of a two-story house at 58 Forest St..
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A worrying Boston Twitter page
Bostonworry is a Twitter feed that smushes together tweets from the Boston police and fire departments, local firefighters and MBTA police. Just the thing if you're the sort of person who momentarily freezes when you hear sirens to see if you can figure out where they're coming from and go check it out. For the full effect, turn your speakers up high and read it while you listen to live Boston Fire and EMS dispatches.
Ed. raises-hand note: OK, I just described myself there. If I'm missing any feeds that should be in that list, let me know.
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Another fire on the Red Line
Boston Fire tweets there was a small track fire on the Red Line outbound at Downtown Crossing shortly after midnight. No injuries.
Back in September:
Meltdown on the Red and Orange lines.
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Traffic snarled as fire crews race to quickly extinguished fire at Children's Hospital
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A researcher in the basement of 30 Blackfan St. "had a small flash fire while working on a project" shortly after 2 p.m., Boston Fire reports.
By the time fire crews arrived, the fire was out, although light smoke filled the lower two floors of the building. Boston Police tweet traffic in the Longwood Medical Area and along Huntington Avenue was all messed up.
The worker was able to walk herself to the hospital emergency room for evaluation; fire and hospital officials continue to investigate the cause of the brief fire.
Traffic at Huntington and Longwood, taken by Robert Storlazzi, who reported shortly after 3 p.m. that Longwood was open to traffic again but that Huntington was backed up to Symphony:

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Fire on Federal Street
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Local 718 reports a vent fire on the third floor of 133 Federal St.
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Two-alarm fire in South End leaves five homeless
Location
Boston Fire reports a two-alarm fire that broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Parmlee Court Homes complex, 123 Northampton St. forced five people out of their apartments, but didn't injure anybody. The fire, knocked down in about 10 minutes, did $100,000 damage, the department says.
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Four-alarm fire in Milton
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On Kahler Ave., power lines down in the backyard, fire crews from as far away as Brookline are on scene. Broke out around 5 p.m.
Via Ben Jackson and Mark Baard.
Channel 7 reports fire officials blame a candle for the fire.
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Cops didn't have to ask the Globe where the fire is
So the Fire Department puts out a $100,000 fire in a prominent Chinatown restaurant and uncovers illegal living quarters and possibly a gambling den in the seven floors above it. The Herald has the story. The Globe doesn't.
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