The Boston Fire Department reports a transformer explosion behind the Lenox Hotel at Exeter and Boylston streets around 12:30 p.m. filled the hotel with smoke. Firefighters went through the hotels evacuating all guests and employees as other firefighters installed fans to get the smoke out.
The department ordered a two-alarm response because of the need to evacuate the building.
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No reason tourists should
By Rwgfy
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 3:11pm
No reason tourists should enjoy better quality of life than the city residents
Didn't this transformer explode ~10 years ago?
By BostonDog
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 3:22pm
And caused a big blackout in Back Bay along with smoke that made people wonder if Boston had been bombed?
That one was on Scotia St.
By anon
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 4:28pm
That one was on Scotia St.
I thought
By Starluna
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 4:50pm
I thought that one was closer to the Sheraton hotel. I have vague memories of being rerouted when trying to navigate through there to get to the Christian Science building parking lot. But that could be a mis-remembering.
Yes it was in the garage on
By anon
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 5:12pm
Yes it was in the garage on Dalton Street. I worked in the Pru at the time and went in the next day to get something. A woman stopped me to tell me to avoid the area near Legal Seafood because all of the fish “melted”
Scotia Street in 2012
By adamg
Sat, 01/27/2024 - 5:11pm
Transformer explodes, fire rages, Back Bay goes dark.
That was a major neighborhood transformer, while the thing that blew up today was way smaller.
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