Smoke rising from near tracks at Hyde Park Avenue and Cummins. Photo by Richard Ovesen.
Ed Baur reports a brush fire off Rowe Street and Cummins Highway set a couple of sheds on fire.
Both Amtrak and the T reported significant delays due to the fire. At least one Washington-bound Amtrak train sat at South Station for close to 40 minutes past its departure time - with no lights or air conditioning.
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Oh Welcome Spring!
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 6:28pm
Dry leaves and temps in the high 80s and that red flag means business!
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By emac
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 6:52pm
Is someone setting brush fires in the city or are these accidental?
Or the entitled smokers
By ChrisF
Fri, 04/14/2023 - 12:37am
It could be one of those entitled smokers who have no problem polluting our community and lungs with their disgusting habit and throwing something with embers into a pile of dry leaves.
"accidental"
By lbb
Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:06am
They all start with a match, so no, none of them are accidental, but I suspect very few are "set" in the sense that you mean. It's careless disposal of lit matches, cigarette butts and other burning materials.
As dry as it is...
By MrZip
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 7:41pm
...sparks from the wheels of a passing train could be enough to get something going. Even though there's no 3rd rail here, just catenary for Amtrak and MBTA diesel commuter rail lines, just the steel-on-steel of wheels to rails can throw off sparks. Of course there's always "careless disposal of smoking material..." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"careless disposal of smoking
By Rob
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 8:24pm
"careless disposal of smoking material..."
Please be careful saying things like that. In addition to the elevated fire conditions advisory from the National Weather Service, we're also under an elevated Magoo conditions advisory from the National InterWebs Service.
Careless use of a straight line like careless disposal of smoking material puts us at elevated risk of Magoo popping up and telling us what he did to his Samantha Fox poster one time.
hilarious!
By Luke Warmer
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 9:05pm
hilarious!
Sorry, did you mean to say
By xyz
Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:36am
Sorry, did you mean to say "what he did to his Samantha Fox poster one time. Magoo."?
And what negligence CAUSED
By anon
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 9:04pm
And what negligence CAUSED the fire???
it doesn't take much
By cybah
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:32pm
It really can be caused by spontaneous combustion.
Four days ago, Adam reported on the mulch pile in Norwood catching fire
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/american-legion-highways-giant-mound-o...
Low snow totals, combined with no real heavy rains for weeks (and weeks to come). Brush, leaves, etc are very dry out there.. very dry.
Add some heat like yesterday and today.. along with the sun moving higher in the sky.
It doesn't take much.
NWS fire map
By MassMouse
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:42pm
If anyone has the Climb app from NOAA, they actually have a map of reported fires. Pretty neat to see, and scary at the same time.
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