A manhole exploded shortly before 6 p.m. at Cambridge and Bowdoin streets, sending two Eversource workers to Mass. General, one with life-threatening injuries, and creating massive traffic issues in the area.
From across the street, Sonya Dunne reports:
Sounded like the Hill was exploding. Really bad. Could hear the guy. Can't stop shaking and crying. These first responders are amazing people. Ran right in. God Bless them. Christ.
Boston Fire and Eversource crews are figuring out how to deal with the explosion in an underground transformer "vault." OSHA will launch an investigation tomorrow.
Scene at Cambridge and Chardon just now in #Boston following a manhole cover explosion cc @universalhub pic.twitter.com/mWH4b56sL7
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Lots of traffic already being diverted that direction
By Ron Newman
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:20pm
with Congress Street closed under the soon-to-be-demolished Government Center Garage
Welp, not any longer
By adamg
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:31pm
Best to avoid the area ...
BPD has officers coming in from other districts to handle calls so A-1 officers can try to deal with traffic.
Once again, WHDH will reporting...
By Friartuck
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:33pm
New Hardon Road....
I believe there was also one
By anon
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:32pm
I believe there was also one at State and Congress this morning. That's what was reported on one of the news stations this morning.
Sitting in this horse shit
By anon
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:33pm
Sitting in this horse shit right now
I work by there…
By workingdefinition
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:41pm
and have smelled gas on Cambridge by that very spot for the last few days. It has been like that for years though the intensity seems to ebb and flow. Total negligence on the part of the gas company, and failure of oversight by the DPU.
Smell of gas
By downtown-anon
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:52pm
I smell gas walking all over downtown. At least in Beacon Hill I can usually look up and see a lamp out. I assume whatever is leaking is dissipated by the moving air, but that doesn't work if is filling a manhole.
The gas company has been replacing gas lines for a few years in Beacon Hill, but ti seems to take months to do one block.
Map of leaks
By Editrickster
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:50pm
HEET keeps a map of those spots. The pipes must be like Swiss cheese by now.
Here’s one of their maps: https://heet.org/gas-leaks/gas-leak-maps/
Nothing to do with gas it was
By Dan dab
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:58pm
Nothing to do with gas it was en electrical explosion with a transformer
According to the BFD twitter account
By Hardy Har Har
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 6:42pm
37 Bowdoin Street - which is the address of the Grotto Restaurant. 2 Eversource employees taken to the hospital
Hoping the injuries are minor
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:01pm
Can't defer maintenance and collude to ignore damage forever I guess.
Have to wonder if there is some larger failure going on given the geologic/natural history of the area.
There was an explosion on Quaker St this morning
By Hardy Har Har
Tue, 07/12/2022 - 7:09pm
which closed a lane on Congress St. Plus explosions in the Financial District last month.
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