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Boston Fire Department is now on Twitter

Following the success of the Boston Police, The Boston Fire Department is now on Twitter.

www.twitter.com/Boston_Fire

This Twitter feed will be updated with information on citywide fire related emergencies whenever possible. Come join us!

Reunion of Boston firefighter and historically saved baby

In 1968, firefighter William Carroll rescued a baby, Evangeline Harper, from a burning building:

A newspaper photograph captured their image - a white firefighter from South Boston with his lips pressed to the mouth of a black baby from the Roxbury public housing development - at a time when riots sparked by racial tensions were burning down American cities.

Over 40 years later, they are reunited.

Globe front-page piece today, "40 years' worth of thanks," by Maria Cramer. With sentimental video, "Joyful reunion," by Dina Rudick and Scott Helman.