Kenmore Square is a happening place
A pretty substantial response by Boston Fire department to some kind of incident at the Braemore on Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore Square tonight. I don’t know yet whether anybody was hurt.
Below are some pictures from fairly early in the response, before the police rerouted traffic.
This is a photo of fire fighters scaling a ladder to reach an apartment. There was quite a bit of sound of glass breaking and there was also a bit of smoke, but nothing too bad.
After a while the East bound traffic on Commwealth Avenue was rerouted:
Here’s a picture that shows the ladder in position. Charlesgate West is the overpass in the background.
I shot a lot of video, mostly to see how it would come out, but not much of it is particularly captivating. Well, I guess one could splice together 30 seconds or so of decent video, but that ain’t happening tonight, folks (actually, it turns out that my wife shot a pretty decent overview clip using the video function on our regular digital camera). Note of interest: Never ever use the zoom on the Pure Digital video camera. It absolutely blows.
Here’s a bunch of much better photos from a fire on the other side of the block, on Newbury Street, a few years ago.
