3-27-2014
http://news.yahoo.com/least-17-hurt-historic-boston-neighborhood-blaze-215948341.html
Two Firefighters killed, 17 hurt in historic Boston neighborhood blaze
Two firefighters were reported killed and at least 17 people injured as a nine-alarm fire raced through a four-story building in the city's historic Back Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, drawing a large-scale emergency response, local officials said.
All residents of the apartment building escaped unharmed, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. He described the fire as a nine-alarm incident, the department's highest level of severity.
With more than 150 firefighters at the scene, it was not immediately known how many of the injured may have been civilians, he said.
"It's a very unstable condition right now," MacDonald told reporters earlier. With the winds, "it's hard fighting it from the outside."
Firefighters were focused on keeping the blaze from spreading to neighboring buildings on a day the city was buffeted by high winds, MacDonald said.
http://news.yahoo.com/least-17-hurt-historic-boston-neighborhood-blaze-215948341.html
Two Firefighters killed, 17 hurt in historic Boston neighborhood blaze
Two firefighters were reported killed and at least 17 people injured as a nine-alarm fire raced through a four-story building in the city's historic Back Bay neighborhood on Wednesday, drawing a large-scale emergency response, local officials said.
All residents of the apartment building escaped unharmed, said Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald. He described the fire as a nine-alarm incident, the department's highest level of severity.
With more than 150 firefighters at the scene, it was not immediately known how many of the injured may have been civilians, he said.
"It's a very unstable condition right now," MacDonald told reporters earlier. With the winds, "it's hard fighting it from the outside."
Firefighters were focused on keeping the blaze from spreading to neighboring buildings on a day the city was buffeted by high winds, MacDonald said.
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