A pier fire at the Dorchester Yacht Club off the Southeast Expressway erupted late this afternoon and went to two alarms because of the difficulty of fighting it, the Boston Fire Department reports. Divers went into the water to try to fight the fire o... »
On Sunday Feb 19th we were finally able to attend the annual chocolate event at the Dorchester Historical Society - what fun! The capacity crowd learned about the history of chocolate, introduced to the US in Dorchester in 1765 (factoid via presenter a... »
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire called in around 5:45 a.m. at 28 Harvard Ave. sent a 13-year-old boy to Mass. General with burns. Two firefighters were also taken to the hospital, one with facial injuries, one with chest pains. Nine people we... »
A bedroom short circuit caused a two-alarm fire this morning at 101 Maxwell St., the Boston Fire Department reports. No residents were injured, but one firefighter was taken to Carney Hospital with a head injury, the department says. Damage was estimat... »
Westwind Road. Photo by BFD. A three-alarm fire that broke out around 3 a.m. at 40 Westwind Rd. left an elderly man dead and sent four residents and one firefighter to the hospital, the Boston Fire Department reports. Two MBTA buses were brought in to ... »
Battling fire on Sydney Street. Photo by BFD. The Boston Fire Department reports a fire at 161 Sydney St. did an estimated $500,000 in damage. Nobody was injured in the fire, reported shortly before 11 a.m. The cause is still under investigation, the d... »
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire erupted around 11:30 p.m. at 333 Columbia Rd. Six residents were displaced, the department says. None suffered injuries, but one firefighter went to the hospital for observation after slipping, the department s... »
The University of Massachusetts Boston might be changing its team colors to green after it was named in the Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges , for the third year in a row. »
