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Sorry, you did not have as bad a morning as Sean

He notices a burning car outside his Hancock Village apartment and then, well, here's video of the back of his car catching fire from the other car. OK, make that: Sorry, you did not have as bad of a morning as Sean or the guy whose car was completely consumed by flames.

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Jamaica Plain salon hit by arson again

Maria's

Blue Socks, who took the above photo, reports that Maria's Hair Fashion, 138 South St. (pre-fire street view), was apparently firebombed around 4 a.m. today. The store was also firebombed in 2006. Unlike in that incident, this time the blaze did not travel all the way down the street, Blue Socks reports, adding:

When will the arson in JP stop?!!

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Fenway restaurants, dry cleaners go up in flames; residents evacuated

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Peterborough St. and Kilmarnock St.
Boston
United States
42° 20' 35.196" N, 71° 5' 58.416" W
Ex-restaurants

Where the restaurants used to be. By Clock.bound. More. Used under CC.

The Herald reports on the four-alarm fire that destroyed Sorentos, Umi Fenway, Rod Dee, Greek Isle, El Pelon Taqueria and Thornton's Fenway Grille on Peterborough Street early this morning. Channel 4 has video, reports the fire also forced dozens of residents out of their apartments. Channel 5 has photos.

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Neighbors turn heroes at Dorchester fire

The Globe reports how a couple of Tuttle Street residents used a ladder to save a couple of residents trapped on the third floor by a fire at 56 Tuttle St. this morning. That's the same floor of the same building where Daniel Yakovleff was murdered this past January.

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Well, at least it worked as advertised

Cambridge Police report a fire erupted at the Whole Foods on Alewife Brook Parkway around 2 a.m. on Dec. 26 when some firewood stacked outside the store somehow caught fire.

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Exploding manhole takes out part of Boylston Street

Jeffrey Marsh tweets:

Boylston Apple Store still closed. Apparently there was a underground fire/manhole cover explosion, knocked the power out on most the block

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Report: State could have saved those two girls burned to death

State Office of the Child Advocate concludes state child-welfare workers failed to connect the dots and pull Acia and Sophia Reisopoulos out of their dysfunctional household before they burned to death in an arson fire on April 6, allegedly set by their mother's angry lover.

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One dead in Scituate house explosion

Channel 5 reports on the 2:30 p.m. explosion on Turner Road that set other houses on fire and broke windows a half mile away.

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Early-morning fire at JP condo building

The Globe reports nobody was injured in the 5 a.m. fire at 50 Jamaicaway.

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