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News Notes – February 23
From Universal Hub: Fire erupts on Gloucester Street at Newbury 632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada’) of prophet Muhammad. 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. More anniversaries.
News Notes – April 9 – Appomatox, 1865
Playing back her dramatic fire rescue – ‘I was just lucky, so lucky,’ she says By Milton J. Valencia – Globe Staff / April 9, 2010 They found her engulfed in black smoke, on her knees, her face against a door, as if she were gasping for any air she could get through an opening. [...]
Burning the Fens
A handful of photos of the Fenway Fires. Photos credit of Dan Lucal.
News Notes – April 6
Large brush fire sweeps Fens area By Ursula Munn, Globe Correspondent – April 5, 2010 A brush fire that broke out in the Fens this evening was put out after a “good two-and-a-half hours of chasing it,” according to Stephen MacDonald, Boston Fire Department spokesman. About 50 firefighters battled the blaze, he said, which started [...]
Fenway History – Metropolitan Horse Railroad fire
The New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute Building. Image from www.stcroixarchitecture.com/ By Elizabeth Gillis The fire wagon, pulled by horses, hurried up Huntington Avenue. The first wagon carried the firemen and perhaps there was another that carried the fire hose.When they arrived they saw what a desperate situation it was so a second fire alarm [...]
Murals Add Some Life to Peterborough’s Burned-out Block
The mural-painting crew from the McKinley School pauses in front of their work on the storefront that housed El Pelon before the January 5 fire. Photo by Kerry Mooney BY KERRY MOONEYAfter the devastating fire on “restaurant row” on Peterborough Street this past January, several projects have been in the works to bring some life [...]
McKinley HS Students Commemorate Fire with Music
By Steve Harnish Music, when boiled down to its essence, is about relationships; mostly, the performer’s relationship with the outside world. Love songs, protest songs, ballads, even genres as diverse as experimental jazz and children’s songs are all ultimately about relationships. Some on a grand scale; think of Woody Guthrie’s guitar painted with the words- [...]
Fire Victims to Expect Lengthy Rebuilding Process
By Lori A. Frankian An anxious yet warm energy filled Church restaurant, the generous host of a Feb. 23 meeting organized by the Fenway CDC to update the neighborhood on the status of the restaurants destroyed by fire on Jan. 6. Approximately 135 people filled the Kilmarnock Street restaurant—City of Boston officials, restaurant owners, community [...]
Burned out: When Fenway's Restaurant Row went up in flames, neighbors lost more than their favorite eats
By Maggie Cassidy – Globe Correspondent / March 15, 2009 When workers closed up shop at El Pelon Taqueria on the night of Jan. 5, there were virtually no signs that the restaurant had suffered a devastating fire just over a year earlier, in December 2007. Since reopening in February 2008, they had reincarnated their [...]
No Deaths, but Big Losses for Neighborhood in Restaurant Fires
Boston firefighter in the pre-dawn aftermath of the Peterborough St. fire. Photo by Kerry Mooney. By Ruth Khowais (Steve Wolf and Stephen Brophy added reporting to this story.) Few signs remain of the once vibrant West Fenway restaurant scene. El Pelon, the popular taqueria always with a line out the door, is boarded-up and unrecognizable. [...]