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Arson squad, police investigate fire in the Fens after badly burned man pulled out of water
By adamg on Sat, 03/30/2013 - 6:29pm
Firefighters move victim to ambulance. Photo copyright T.S. Miller. More photos.
What seemed like your basic springtime Fens fire this evening took on a more somber tone when firefighters pulled a badly burned man out from the water behind the Fire Department's fire-alarm building.
Fenway scene. Photo by Masstreehugger.
The Boston Fire Department reports it does not know how the man wound up in the water. Arson investigators and police detectives are now investigating the reed fire, reported around 6 p.m. The man was discovered and removed around 6:30 p.m.
Photo by Masstreehugger. Note the cross: Commemorates death of Steven Hill, found dead there last fall.
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Speaking of fire
Kenmore station smelled awful earlier this afternoon, like something was burning.
No idea why. Anyone else notice?
Meanwhile the Mass Department
Meanwhile the Mass Department of Environmental Protection continues to block any attempts by the city to mow or otherwise remove the invasive reeds. Doesn't matter how clogged the Muddy River gets and floods, how many sketchy people camp out there, how overpopulated the geese get nesting in there, how many fires break out endangering people & property, and how many people get hurt or killed every year because the reeds create a safety hazard, Mass DEP is more concerned about protecting an INVASIVE species than human lives.
And they do it just to make you MAD!
Yes, that must be it.
Nothing to do with wetland preservation, nothing to do with erosion that would happen if they ripped them out. Nope. Just to piss you off.
They are preserving the
They are preserving the wetlands by allowing the invasive reeds to destroy the entire ecosystem of native organisms unabated?
WRONG. It has nothing to do
WRONG. It has nothing to do with "wetlands preservation" and everything to do with a dick-swinging contest between the associated agencies trying to assert their control over the Fens.
Jesus
Reeds will be gone soon as
Reeds will be gone soon as part of the massive restoration project already underway...
http://www.muddyrivermmoc.org/html/RestorationLink...
Hey, the swamp was there first
People chose voluntarily to live in a neighborhood built on a filled-in swamp. Sometimes Mother Nature takes back what's hers. Ask the people of Queens post-Sandy.
By your logic most of the
By your logic most of the city of Boston should drop dead. If you live here, odds are your home is sitting on one form of landfill or another.
Sounds like you must have a house on Plum Island.
The same morons who want the taxpayers to rebuild their houses after a storm, and pay for seawalls and barriers that do not work.
You can't fight Mother Nature.
You can
The Dutch have.
but its prohibitively expensive, and it doesn't make sense to save a few McMansions owners who should have known better than to build on a transient sand bar.
Muddy River bottom
25+ years ago Muddy River restoration was halted mid-project because the muck just below the top layer was so contaminated it would have to be disposed of in clay-lined pits at great expense. At least, that was what I was told years ago living in the neighborhood.
I also came across a NU biologist who, as I recall, confirmed the story & pointed out a sewage outfall that still occasionally overflowed into the river. He also noted the current river bottom is fairly decent, one example being it supported crayfish which are apparently sensitive to pollutants.
Should this all be true I can understand not wanting to disturb the river bottom unnecessarily until there is a remediation plan & funds in place.
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