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Memorial fund set up for firefighters' families

By adamg - 3/27/14 - 3:18 pm

The Boston Firefighters Credit Union has set up a fund and is accepting checks at:

Lieutenant Walsh - Firefighter Kennedy Memorial Fund
Boston Firefighters Credit Union
60 Hallet St.
Dorchester, MA 02124

Firefighter vigil in East Boston tonight

By adamg - 3/27/14 - 12:36 pm

To pay tribute to Edward Walsh and Michael Kennedy. 7 p.m. today in Central Square.

Investigators to focus on 'extraordinary' event at fire that killed two firefighters

By adamg - 3/27/14 - 11:00 am

Boston and federal officials are opening investigations into the fatal 298 Beacon St. fire that could take months to complete.

"It's still too early to determine just what happened," BFD spokesman Steve MacDonald said this morning.

He said the department will convene a board of inquiry consisting of chiefs who did not respond to the fire to conduct an investigation. NIOSH, a federal agency, will also investigate, he said.

The fire's first moments

By adamg - 3/27/14 - 9:56 am
Beacon Hill's Ladder 24 was the first to arrive at fatal fire

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Judd Weiskopf was on Beacon Street when the first fire trucks arrived at 298 Beacon - including Ladder 24 from Cambridge Street - as well as Engine 33 and Ladder 15 from Boylston Street.

His series of photos, taken between 2:48 and 3:07 p.m., show the smoke intensifying rapidly - they would culminate in a wind-blown conflagration that claimed the lives of two firefighters.

Boston's bravest

By adamg - 3/27/14 - 9:29 am
Boston firefighters on Beacon Street

Paul Weiskel photographed firefighters on Beacon Street yesterday.

This morning, firefighters draped black bunting on the Boylston Street firehouse.

Honoring the fallen

By adamg - 3/26/14 - 7:29 pm
Lowering flag at Engine 33

Mediacrity reports that around 7:20 p.m., firefighters from Cambridge Ladder 1 lowered the flag outside the Engine 33/Ladder 15 firehouse on Boylston Street to half staff.

Firefighters trapped by fire in Back Bay basement

By adamg - 3/26/14 - 2:56 pm

beacon st fire clip 4

Beacon Street fire.

Photo by BFD.

UPDATE: WBZ reports two of the firefighters have died.

298 Beacon St. Nine alarms. Firefighters from Engine 33 were trapped without water. Three taken out with injuries, one in critical condition.

Prosecutors from the Suffolk County District Attorney's office are now on scene, standard procedure when a victim has life-threatening injuries. Read more.

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