Fire scene. Photo by Joe Ruscio.
The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries from a two-alarm fire that erupted shortly after noon in a basement electrical vault at 245 Summer St. - the former Stone & Webster building between South Station and the postal annex.
The department reports 2,500 people in the 12-story building were evacuated safely without any injuries. One firefighter suffered injuries not considered life threatening and was taken to a local hospital, the department says.
Firefighters were able to confine the fire to the electrical vault.
Many of the workers lined up on the Summer Street bridge and watched the firefighters in action (photo by Dave Wedge):
@BostonFire @stacos @universalhub Summer St fire from 200 Clarendon. pic.twitter.com/XWsNpNIVVc
— jan (@janovember3) December 19, 2018
Response to 245 Summer St. Downtown at approx. 12:14 PM for a smoke alarm activation. Confirmed fire on arrival. This is a 12-story occupied commercial building. Heavy smoke condition in the rear of building. 2nd Alarm ordered. @bostonpolice on scene for traffic. pic.twitter.com/j9z9vL00BQ
— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) December 19, 2018
— KMugg (@Muggstar) December 19, 2018
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By AMCoffee
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 3:04pm
It may have been a "fault" causing the fire in the Vault.
Thanks
By adamg
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 5:11pm
All my vault, um, fault. Fixed.
Helicopters
By geep9
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 3:41pm
Oh my...
Public Meetings/Hearings Massachusetts Dept of Public Utilities
By theszak
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 8:19pm
The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities website
https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/DPU/Fileroom/Hea...
The webpage lists upcoming public hearings, evidentiary hearings, and technical conferences with docket numbers.
For example, there is an evidentiary hearing in
D.P.U. 18-127 relating to Eversource 10am Thursday, December 20, 2018
and a technical conference in D.P.U. 17-140 relating to Eversource,
1pm Thursday December 20
both located at One South Station 5th Floor, Boston Massachusetts 02110
Documents related to filings in docketed matters may be accessed either by browsing for documents by industry (e.g., Electric or Rates) at http://web1.env.state.ma.us/DPU/FileRoom/dockets/b...
or by looking up the docket by its number in the docket database
at (insert 18-127) http://web1.env.state.ma.us/DPU/FileRoom/dockets/b...
Documents related to filings by a specific petitioner can be accessed at https://eeaonline.eea.state.ma.us/DPU/Fileroom/doc...
OK, I'll bite
By adamg
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 10:33pm
What does this have to do with the fire?
"... in a basement electrical vault"
By theszak
Wed, 12/19/2018 - 11:05pm
>"Firefighters were able to confine the fire to the [b]electrical[/b] vault"
In other words...
By lbb
Thu, 12/20/2018 - 9:31am
...nothing.
Don, don't you have someone at the BPL to agitate?
So is this a Fidelity
By anon
Thu, 12/20/2018 - 8:41am
So is this a Fidelity building as the other news outlets are showing?
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