Small Fire in Brookline Shop

About 9:15am this morning Brookline struck a box for a fire the Brookline Dog Grooming Shop at 148 Harvard Street. A dryer in the basement caught fire but did not extend into the walls. Shop owners, dogs and Firefighters all left happy and my coffee was still hot!

3 Alarms in West Roxbury

A single family home was destroyed in a 3 alarm fire about 3:30pm this afternoon at 7 Kingsland Road in West Roxbury. Car 10 struck a 2nd and 3rd alarm in quick succession reporting a 2.5 story home fully involved. The family lost everything in the blaze.

Brookline Ice Rescue Drill

A perfect morning for an ice rescue drill with high winds and COLD! Brookline Jakes from Group 3 participated in an ice rescue drill this morning at Jamaica Pond. Great learning experience for me as well!

Busy Saturday Morning in Boston

All was quiet until about 1:30am Saturday morning. Of course I had just settled into bed after a somewhat eventless day when Boston struck Box 514 for 1269 Commonwealth Ave. Ladder 14 reported smoke showing and I got up and got dressed but as I did, I heard Box 3358 being struck for a building fire at Blue Hill Ave and Columbia Rd. All of a sudden a 2nd and 3rd alarms were struck so I headed there. I arrived just as the 4th alarm was being transmitted and it ended up being a 5th. Not much was showing from the outside but there was heavy fire inside the building which was the former Frnaklin Park Theatre and now a Baptist Church. While this was going on, there was a fire on Peterborough Street and Buswell Street. I don't remember a night like that in a long time!