Update, 9:15 p.m. NStar reports more than 2,500 customers in Boston and Brookline have no power.
An NStar transformer in an underground vault along Beacon Street self-immolated shortly before 8 p.m., plunging many of the blocks around into darkness. Power in both Boston and Brookline was affected; fire officials refrained from exclaiming "oy, the vault!" but they were probably thinking it.
The outage extended to the Park Drive area, where firefighters responded to 15 Park Dr. around 8:20 p.m. to rescue somebody stuck in an elevator.
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Landsman!
By anonism
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 9:29pm
"Oy, the vault!" Good one.
How many firefighters secretly wish to learn Yiddish, do you suppose?
The number probably approximates 0
By adamg
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 11:13pm
Which in a way is too bad because firefighters are incredibly direct in their language and Yiddish is nothing if not direct.
Clearly their loss!
By anonism
Mon, 09/29/2014 - 6:13am
...although I suspect some may be learning Gaelic.
níl aon rud cearr leis sin !
By kvn
Mon, 09/29/2014 - 10:58am
níl aon rud cearr leis sin !
Whoa.
By Somebody Else.
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 9:09pm
"Self-immolated" - whew.
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