Massive fire in an apartment building at Commonwealth Ave and Harvard Street in Allston this afternoon. Surrounding streets blocked off.

Yesterday, eeka got to play a corpse. She really showed up at the Cambridgeside Galleria to play a victim in the state's disaster exercise, but she reports that had she been an actual victim, she would have died long before emergency workers got to her:

... All of us were put through the radioactive screening and decontamination process before any injuries were triaged. It took me about an hour to get through the first screening. By then, the huge contusions they'd painted all over my neck and chest would have bled out. ...