Fire damage emergency response worker applying tape to stabilize fractured by the fire glass curtain City Hall exterior.  A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image.

– News about Quincy Massachusetts covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

“Gotta roll — another fire at City Hall!”
A file photo image via MassFireTrucks.com

Quincy’s City Hall dodged a flaming bullet Saturday afternoon when a box truck parked in the City Hall senior suits VIP parking lot as well as right next to the backdoor and service entrance of City Hall burst into a towering inferno.

As Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers will surely recall, the historic Old Town Hall portion of Quincy’s two city halls went was hit with a major fire a decade ago at both a crucial as well as ultimately expensive point during old City Hall’s ultimately but extensive remodeling.

An old photo of Quincy firefighters after knocking down a fire
Image via the Quincy Scallion.

While Quincy Fire Department personnel successfully knocked down the fire yesterday, it raged long enough for a local broadcast television channel’s news crew to arrive on the scene in time to score a copy of Citizen Photojournalist video of the inferno as well as so also see to it that a roving reporter do an at the scene report in time for its Eleven O’clock broadcast last night as one of its fire of the day features

Similarly, another local television station scored smartphone video from someone who per the station’s source attribution would appear to be one of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s sisters and who to the best of Quincy Quarry’s understanding is still a long time employee of the City of Quincy.

WCVB 5 Newscopter on the search for news
A wcvb.com image

Further yet, another local TV news station reports that the box truck was on the scene to clean carpeting inside of City Hall.

If this report is accurate, Quincy Quarry News can thus only reasonably opine that the purported cleaning at least included Quincy Mayor Thomas P, Koch’s wicked expense, imported and custom woven wool carpet in his imperial, if not also imperious, mayoral suite that is the exact same carpeting that adorns the floors of both the Senate and House of Representatives chambers in the US Capital.

“Do I have a dime for you!”
Image via Pinterest

Quincy Quarry, on the other hand, was dimed by one of its sources from places both high but mostly low that the box truck is owned by a company retained by the City of Quincy’s Public Buildings Department to redo the inside of the recently as well as controversially purchased by Mayor Koch building next to the Quincy District Courthouse. 

Quincy Quarry was further advised that the private contractor’s truck had been parked over the weekend in the City Hall senior suits’ VIP parking lot for their personal rides so as to endeavor to assure the box truck’s security via City Hall’s security video system.

Whatever is the actual reason or reasons for the private company parking its truck behind City Hall, Quincy Quarry can only properly pose its concerns as to what all was in the box truck that gave rise to such a dramatic fire as well as if there may have been hazardous materials stored in the truck.

Piling it higher as well as deeper
Image via San Jose Mercury News

Plus, regardless of whatever is the actual story behind why the privately owned truck was parked at City Hall over the weekend as well as what was in it, Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal readers can only reasonably assume that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s Chief of Staph Pinocchio Walkbacker to shovel a load of bovine byproduct as regards this more recent fire at City Hall and which the consensus is only just barely did not result in City Hall itself going up in flames.

At the same time, the Quarry has some good news to report.

The mayor’s city ride parked in the VIP parking lot
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

The good news?

While parking just around the corner of City Hall as well as but a few yards away from the box truck fire, Mayor Koch’s over $60,000 leather upholstered and gas-guzzling ginormous black Chevrolet Tahoe Secret Service Special Edition SUV does not appear to have suffered fire damage.

There is more bad news, however: not only does Mayor Koch have the apparently exclusive use of a roomy as well as luxurious city ride, he is also said to receive a car allowance for his use of his personal ride.

Proposed new home for both City Hall and Quincy College
A City of Quincy rendering

The worst news, however, is that one can only assume that yesterday’s fire at City Hall will rekindle Mayor Koch’s talking up his plans for spending upwards of a couple of hundred million dollars on a sixteen story “Edifice Complex” to be built on the current site of the mayor’s also controversial purchase of the nearby Munroe Building so as to house both City Hall and Quincy College.

So what for the fact that not even Mr, Snippy, the City of Quincy’s less than merely inept Commissioner of Public Buildings Department, will probably not be able to run up more than a very low six-figure expense to replace the several dozen panes of City Hall glass exterior panels that were fractured by the heat of the flames and then followed by cold water hosed on them by firefighters unless there also was extensive water damage inflicted upon City Hall by the local hosers who rolled to the scene of this fire.

City Hall yet again hits a pothole, a fire – whatever
An Iconic Quincy Quarry image

After all, water damage care of poor maintenance by the Koch Maladministration is at the heart of why old City Hall had to be redone a dozen years ago.

Plus, one can only assume that the contractor’s liability insurance policy should cover the repair costs, less whatever deductible has to be covered by the contractor, and thus the damage should be repaired at no cost to already soaked local taxpayers.

Actually will be so be fully paid for, however, remains to be seen.

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