--More fire department turmoil: A panel of union firefighters determined that the alcohol and drugs found in the bodies of firefighters Paul Cahill and Warren Payne in August's Tai Ho Restaurant blaze did not cause their deaths. But the fire commissioner begs to differ. [Boston Globe, background: Bostonist]
Results tagged “columbiaroad”
What would Massachusetts be without some sort of infrastructure improvement? Today, the MBTA announced that it will overhaul the Columbia Road, Quincy Street, and Massachusetts Avenue commuter rail bridges.
Upon realizing that large chunks of Boston neighborhoods were left unmapped by Google Street View, Bostonist e-mailed Google HQ to find out why. We received a fairly standard response that the neglected areas would be mapped soon:
--Yesterday's rain caused some trouble when the streets began to fill with water. The Herald estimates that the city received 2.16 inches of water in three hours. A part of Orient Avenue in East Boston began to collapse and took a car belonging to Matt Houle with it. Houle tried to drive the car out before it got swallowed up, but Mother Nature won. Eventually, it took a tow truck to rescue the car. If...
--A man blew up himself and his estranged girlfriend in an elevator in Lynn. It was a terrible, senseless act. The woman took out a restraining order, but then she had it lifted. But, given this guy's extreme behavior, who knows if it would have made a difference? The AP reports through the Daily Item: "Court records showed a restraining order had been issued against Echevairria [the alleged attacker] on Jan. 8 after his girlfriend,...
A man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon on Columbia Road in Dorchester. The killer ran off and got away, which absolutely floors us because this happened in the daytime before witnesses.
