Kendall police activity?

December 8 2006, 16:23:12 UTC 5 years ago

Wow. We don't see any smoke, though.

sweetbums

December 8 2006, 16:28:24 UTC 5 years ago

I think they are saying a few people are still trapped on the roof and there may be a few inside. I hope everyone will be okay.

December 8 2006, 16:42:48 UTC 5 years ago

where on Broadway?

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/12/reports_of_30_p.html

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georgy

December 8 2006, 16:42:48 UTC 5 years ago

littlestarletta

December 8 2006, 16:47:01 UTC 5 years ago

BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters are battling a blaze at an office building in Cambridge where there are reports of up to 30 people trapped on the roof. The fire is at 1 Broadway, an office building at the intersection of Main Street near the Longfellow Bridge.

tanpiover2

December 8 2006, 16:47:05 UTC 5 years ago

There's a fire of some sort at One Broadway.

That's all I know at this time.

December 8 2006, 16:49:57 UTC 5 years ago

I'm wondering why this would require stopping the subway....

December 8 2006, 16:55:02 UTC 5 years ago

Because the fire is RIGHT NEXT TO the Longfellow bridge. Where the Red Line surfaces to cross the Charles.

ihavemeaning

December 8 2006, 23:59:55 UTC 5 years ago

The whole block lost power.

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bkdelong

December 8 2006, 17:01:51 UTC 5 years ago

Allegedly a 5 Alarm Fire. Red Cross of Mass Bay (office right next door to 1 Broadway), has just put an email out to its trained Disaster services volunteers.

bkdelong

December 8 2006, 17:07:03 UTC 5 years ago

Floorplan from MIT:

http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?zoom=level2¢erx=712438¢ery=496823&oldzoom=level3&map.x=300&map.y=187

December 8 2006, 17:04:58 UTC 5 years ago

WBZ-TV 4 reports: at least 25 injuries, most due to smoke inhalation. An explosion in a room where NStar was doing work. Longfellow Bridge closed going outbound to Cambridge, still open the other direction. Red Line service just resumed.

December 8 2006, 17:09:58 UTC 5 years ago

Hi everyone, I work in the building (I live in Central so I just walked home), so here's the first-hand account.

From what I heard the fire started in the basement. I can tell you right now, it smelled like an electrical fire, which would also explain all the power outages in the area and why the T isn't running. Some of my company's people were stuck on the low roof (the high-rise part is 16 stories, but there's also a lower addition where Dunkins and Wainright are that's about 5 stories). I saw a couple of windows smashed open around the 7th or 8th floor. Since it started in the basement, a lot of people had to exit out of the parking garage, which I think goes up to about the 5th floor--yeah, it's part of that low addition. There were also a lot of people with smoke inhalation--some people were vomiting on the sidewalk and coughing up some nasty shit. The ambulances had oxygen tanks and someone was handing out bottles of water because that smoke was nasty. I still have a burning sensation in the back of my throat, over an hour later.

I hadn't heard anything about any major injuries or smoke inhalation, and I think everyone is relatively okay, thank god(s). It hasn't really hit me until about 15 minutes ago how freakin' scary that was.

December 8 2006, 17:13:52 UTC 5 years ago

Wow -- thanks for the report, hope you're better soon.

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December 8 2006, 18:45:25 UTC 5 years ago

Glad you're ok. I work at 4CC and we lost power and were evacuated. It was crazy down there.

We were told by one of the firefighters that it was a fire int he basement that caused a transporter to blow up and that sent smoke straight up the ventilation system to most of the floors. He told us that some of the floors remained clear of smoke.

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quirkybook

December 8 2006, 20:50:32 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks for the report, and I'm glad to hear that you're okay!

Out of curiousity, which floor did you work on? I'm kind of freaking out now because my cousin worked on the 12th, and no one has been able to get in touch with her...

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ihavemeaning

December 8 2006, 23:29:37 UTC 5 years ago

dude

I work there too. I was like, totally traumatized.

ert

December 10 2006, 19:47:14 UTC 5 years ago

It hasn't really hit me until about 15 minutes ago how freakin' scary that was.

I was working on the 3rd floor and one of the first people out, I found it noteworthy how long it took me to go from "Hm, I wonder if this is an actual fire" to "huh, actual fire, wonder if this will take longer than a fire drill before we can go back in the building" to "holy crap, this is really serious."

derspatchel

December 8 2006, 17:24:02 UTC 5 years ago

Whoa. Holy shit. I was riding the Red Line inbound and was stopped at Kendall just, apparently, as this occurred. The lights on the Kendall platform began to flicker and flash and eventually went out, and we stayed on the station for about a minute before heading across the bridge to Charles. Now that I think about it, we probably were the last train across before they suspended service.

I think the Charlie gates automatically opened up, too, once the power went out.

I wasn't in a position to look back across at Cambridge, and I wish I had. At the time when the platform lights went out, I had just thought it was typical MBTA maintenance problems, like a blown fuse or something. All I could think was "I hope the trains run off a different electrical source."