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Nobody injured in fire in unoccupied downtown office tower

Boston Fire ladders up at 280 Congress St.

Ladders up. Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters responded around 7 p.m. to the 30th floor of Atlantic Wharf, 280 Congress St. for a fire that Live Boston reports started in an electrical box.

The Boston Fire Department reports there were no injuries in the unoccupied commercial tower of the mixed-use complex.

The department adds that elevators serving floors 16 to 31 have been shut because of flooding from water used to fight the fire. Elevators serving floors 2 to 15 remain operational.

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So why the ladders again?

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So the firefighters can get closer to the fire to fight the fire.

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Isn't that what standpipes are for? ladders are 10 stories at best, and the report is an issue on the 30th floor. So what - climb up 10 stories and shoot water p the other 20?

Seems like something that should be fought internally - unless ladders go up anyway just in case 'something else' happens...

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Ladders are a reassuring sight to the non-commercial residents. Call it fire fighting theater if you like.

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The hollowed grounds of the downtown Boston

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Let me guess, someone paid $20 million for that property and now it's worth $7 million.

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Huh?

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I thought that address looked vaguely familiar- I was with Wellington Management there until I received the exciting promotion to unemployment rolls in June… along with a bunch of other “very lucky people”.

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