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Breaking--Nine Alarm Fire in Cambridge, MA
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| 12/03/2016
| Mike Caraggi
Posted on 12/03/2016 1:06:12 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: wrench
A family member just bought an old Boston house with K&T wiring. They wanted to do some renovation, so that meant bring it up to current code. It was quite expensive, but I told them do it, renovation or not.
Like I said, 70 year old wiring is scary, the K&T stuff, while robust for what it is, has had decades of folks potentially monkeying with it, and is not in any way to be trusted with modern household devices. That's money well spent to fully replace the wiring in those old houses. Most of those old knob-and-tube only had a 4 or 6 circuits in the house. Completely inadequate.
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:31:39 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(Les Deplorables Triumphant)
To: Pearls Before Swine
I think these fires may be motivated by insurance fraud.
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:32:33 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
As many as 2 dozen may be dead . . . building has violations - last used as a warehouse - people living there without permits.
The owner is going to jail for a long, long time.
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:35:39 PM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Pearls Before Swine
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:37:12 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
To: miss marmelstein
I think there were also fires in Georgia.
Something is going on.
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:38:27 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Lived right around the corner in grad school back in the day. It was a working-class neighborhood, heavily Portuguese, back then.
To: miss marmelstein
“Whats going on?”
I think things are very, very dry. The NJ weatherman keeps talking about how we need rain. And I talked to a friend in TN, she says they are no where near the fires, but she’s a little nervous because things are super dry by her. They only had rain 4 times since August, which is kind of bad when you think about it.
To: Pearls Before Swine
OK. Too many major fires.
This is NOT coincidence.
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posted on
12/03/2016 2:45:37 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: BlessedBeGod
These are some amazing pictures. This is like the fire that happened out in Queens during Superstorm Sandy, but that was because the firemen couldn’t get to the houses due to the flooding.,
To: PlateOfShrimp
I remember a Portuguese restaurant that served a pretty spicy fish stew up on Cambridge Street, myself. But that’s going to my personal Wayback Machine.
To: NonValueAdded
I believe a lot of those mutual aid call outs are for towns to send units to cover stations where apparatus is out working the fire.
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:12:23 PM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Ive heard of nine, not ten. Tenth alarm struck according to local news.
To: Palio di Siena
>> Is that a muzziehood ?
MIT has some Muslim engineers.
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:14:13 PM PST
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors!)
To: M. Thatcher
To: Pearls Before Swine
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:18:11 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: trisham
WOW, densely packed. This summer we evacuated for a few days due to a nearby wildfire. But being this is NM, it burned 18,000 acres and only destroyed 12 homes.
To: Pearls Before Swine
The very first Legal Seafoods was located at Inmans Square. Not there anymore.
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:28:09 PM PST
by
HandyDandy
(Don't make up stuff. It wastes time.)
To: miss marmelstein
"Fires in TN, CA and now MA. Whats going on?." Must be those blasted Amish...!
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:30:06 PM PST
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: Thumper1960
Thanks for your take on it.
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:30:36 PM PST
by
Maudeen
(No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
To: libertarian27
IIRC, Boston only goes to nine alarms. They can special call additional engines and ladders to “make” a 10th or higher alarm
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posted on
12/03/2016 3:31:06 PM PST
by
matt04
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