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BostonFire

  1. @Wolf112 it is a machine loading concrete to a building under construction next door
  2. One of 2 basement electrical rooms at the Moakley Courthouse. twitpic.com/9oucbe
  3. All fire units clear of the courthouse at 6:30 pm. Unknown if courthouse will be open tomorrow.
  4. Employees being escorted back in to courthouse to retrieve belongings so they can go home.
  5. twitpic.com/9otj9w
  6. Haz Mat Techs ordered to the scene to test building air quality with their meters. Now getting burning smell outside.
  7. twitpic.com/9otfbt
  8. twitpic.com/9otegf
  9. NSTAR now on scene. Working to kill power to the transformer. No injuries. Fire appears confined to transformer room basement
  10. 12 Northern Ave. twitpic.com/9otb3w
  11. Moakley Federal Courthouse twitpic.com/9otazk
  12. 2nd alarm ordered to help with building evacuation. No reported injuries.
  13. Fire in a transformer room in basement. Sprinkler activated. Waiting for NSTAR to de-energize the transformer.
  14. Response at 4:12 pm for the Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse for a transformer fire in the basement.
  15. One worker exposed and was deconed by washing hands. Cleanup company called to handle spill of about 2-3 ounces.
  16. The small spill in Charlestown was in a warehouse type building where the National Parks stores some artifacts.
  17. Response to the mercury spill in Charlestown has been downgraded. 1 engine and 1 ladder with a Chief and Haz Mat Tech remain on scene.
  18. BFD Haz Mat crews on scene at Building #107, 2nd floor for leak of approximately 1 ounce outside and 2 ounces inside the clock
  19. Response at 11:39 am to 3rd Avenue in the Charlestown Navy Yard for an old Grandfather clock that has leaked some mercury.
  20. Cause of the 2nd floor fire at 321 Commonwealth Ave. was an electrical short circuit in the kitchen.