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Enderbean21 passes along this video of a car on fire on Pearl Street downtown this evening.
The Boston Fire Department battled a two-alarm fire that broke out around 1 p.m. at 110 McBride St. Smoke was reported coming from the roof; firefighters found fire in the basement.
Amid all the flooded-basement and accident calls this morning, the Boston Fire Department also had to send crews out to manhole fires at State Street and Surface Road and Allston Street and Comm. Ave.
Soggy hat tip to Prairie Rose Clayton for the headline.
The Boston Fire Department reports heat from contractors taking apart old pipes in the basement of the Emmanuel College administration building traveled up five floors and set wooden flooring on fire around 2 p.m. today.
Nobody was injured in the fire in the 400 Fenway building, undergoing renovations, the department says, adding damage was estimated at $50,000.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire broke out around 11:30 at 12 Stanton St.; went to two alarms, with fire going from the second-floor ceiling into the third floor. Did roughly $200,000 in damage; nine adults and four kids forced out.
Situation over, but area is a mess, Boston_Fireman tweets.
The Boston Fire Department reports Pat Foley was a block away from the Engine 21 firehouse in Dorchester this morning when he noticed a fire in an apartment building at 40 Sumner St. around 7 a.m. Foley called in the fire, then raced into the building and began knocking on doors to rouse residents and get them out.
Firefighters who responded to the blaze had to use "forceable entry tools" to enter one apartment, where they found an unconscious woman. She was taken to Mass. General in serious condition.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in about 20 minutes, the department reports. The department estimates the fire - under investigation by both BFD inspectors and Boston Police - caused roughly $50,000 in damage.
Ladder 29 reports Brookline and Boston firefighters responded to a fire at 82 Evans Rd. around noon:
Fire in walls of 2.5 frame, Fire thru roof, 75x100, 4 lines run, 3 operating.
A flaming manhole spread smoke into 61 Brookline Ave. - home of Boston Beer Works - around noon, the Boston Fire Department reports.
The building was evacuated, no major damage done, but one firefighter was taken to a nearby hospital for evaluation of respiratory issues.
The Boston Fire Department reports a child playing with matches at 24-26 Hopkins St. started a fire around 4:30 p.m. that did an estimated $75,000 damage and made ten people homeless. Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a discarded cigarette on a third-floor porch sparked a two-alarm fire in a Dorchester three decker this morning.
Nobody was injured in the fire at 11 Althea St., but seven adults and six children now have to find someplace else to live, BFD reports, adding damage was estimated at $150,000.
The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries from the explosion this afternoon on the fourth floor of Sophia Snow Place, 1205 Centre St.: Read more
The Boston Fire Department responded to a fire in the ductwork at Houston's, 60 State St., around 1 p.m. As a precaution, the first five floors of the building were evacuated.
Local 718 tweets firefighters responded to a fire that broke out around 1:30 a.m. at 8 Destefano Rd..
Ladder 29 tweets investigators are looking at "a large grass fire" that also involved two Dumpsters between Vallar Road and Faywood Avenue in East Boston tonight.
On Jan. 25, fire crews knocked down a basement fire nearby at 15 Crestway Rd.
The Boston Fire Department reports 14 people were forced out of their homes and one firefighter injured by a two-alarm fire that broke out shortly after 11 p.m. at 55 Msgr. Lydon Way.
The firefighter was hurt when ceiling debris fell on him. Officials say the fire, which started because of a third-floor short circuit, did an estimated $400,000 damage. Officials say 14 residents were forced out of their homes.
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The Boston Fire Department reports a fire in a vent at Bricco, 241 Hanover St., around 7:30 p.m and that the fire was out by 7:50 p.m.
Local 718 and Ladder 29 tweet a man suffered burns serious enough to require transport to a local hospital following a fire that broke out around 9:30 a.m. on the third floor of a triple decker at 38 Lyon St..
Local 718 tweets crews quickly knocked down a heavy fire at 15 Crestway Rd. tonight.
A house at 114 Clarkson St. caught fire after midnight, according to tweets from Local 718 and Boston Fire Ladder 29. Read more
Boston Fireman tweets that 214 Garfield Ave. was on fire when crews arrived around 11:15 p.m. Flames were coming from the second floor; the fire was, however, quickly put out.
Boston Fire Lad.29 tweets firefighters responded to 40, 50 and 60 Annunciation Rd. for basement fires that broke out tonight. At least one injury reported - at 54 Annunciation Rd. The arson squad is now on the scene.
The Boston Fire Department reports an electrical fire in the basement of Kennedy's Midtown did an estimated $100,000 in damage this morning.
Mark Garfinkel posts photos of Cambridge firefighters with the ferrets they'd just rescued from a two-alarm fire yesterday.
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