From the Boston Globe:
Two Boston firefighters died today while battling a wind-whipped nine-alarm blaze that raced through a rowhouse in the city’s fashionable Back Bay neighborhood, according to two people with direct knowledge of the case.
Firefighters responded at 2:43 p.m. to the four-story brick rowhouse, where a fire was spreading upward from the basement, fanned by winds gusting up to 45 miles per hour.
Details of how the firefighters died weren’t immediately available. But some firefighters had been trapped in the burning building’s basement, officials said....
Around 4:30 p.m., a police officer ordered reporters and others gathered on Beacon Street to move down the street because the fire scene was now deemed a crime scene. “We have someone badly hurt over here!’’ the officer shouted at people.
Yellow crime scene tape was strung across Beacon Street at about 236 Beacon St., while the fire itself was at 298 Beacon St.
The Suffolk district attorney’s office said prosecutors were responding to the scene as they generally do when death could result from an injury. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/26/five-alarm-fire-breaks-out-beacon-street-back-bay/RopoEtQsZ0bgRXwBhggqQI/story.html
A very sad day indeed.
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