Funeral Information

A Public viewing for Firefighter Paul J. Cahill Engine Co.30 will be held Wednesday September 5 th at the Holy Name Church 1689 Center Street West Roxbury, Ma. from 12 noon to 6.p.m.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Holy Name Church Thursday September 6 th , at 11…

No rest for the weary. 2 Alarms Box 5352 1868 Commonwealth Avenue in the Brighton section. Fire was confined to the basement apartment of a 5 story brownstone. No injuries.

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Boston Fire Fighters Local 718 has set up a fund to assist the families of Fire Fighters Paul Cahill and Warren J. Payne who were killed in the line of duty last night. Donations of any amount can be sent to:

West Roxbury Fire Fund

c/o Boston Fire Fighter's Credit Union

60 Hallet Street

Dorchester, MA 02124

Two Boston Firefighters were killed and four others injured in a 4 alarm fire at 1727 Center Street in West Roxbury about 9:15pm Wednesday night. The fire started in the Hi Ho Thai restaurant and extended into a dog grooming parlor next door.



The fire spread rapidly and a 2nd alarm was ordered shortly after the first arriving companies. A partial roof collapse occurred causing an air conditioning unit to fall into the building. All companies were…

Marblehead, MA Station 2

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7-9 Sheridan Street in Jamaica Plain (District 9) about 5:30 this afternoon.

Needham Fire Fighters open up around the electric meter at 66 pond View Ave this afternoon. Apparently a cable installer struck a live wire inside the wall sparking a fire which was quickly contained.

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Collyer's Mansion conditions are a common but rarely publicized situation that confronts Public Safety personnel. Persons living in these conditions often present as clean, well spoken and "normal" in public but suffer from a mental condition that prevents them from distinguishing between trash and valuable items. This is called Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder.

The following is a brief…

Boston Ladder 9's Seagrave Tiller

The Roman emperor Augustus is credited with instituting a corps of fire-fighting vigiles (“watchmen”) in 24 bc. Regulations for checking and preventing fires were developed. In the preindustrial era most cities had watchmen who sounded an alarm at signs of fire. The principal piece of fire-fighting equipment in ancient Rome and into early modern times was the bucket, passed from hand to hand to…

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Steve (Firephoto161)

The days of rubber boots, rubber coats, rubber gloves, leather helmets and 3 pound wheat light batteries. My Dad in 1972 at a 3 alarm fire Brookline, Massachusetts.