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Quincy Quarry’s Citizen Police Scanner Monitor in action.
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Quincy Quarry News Citizen Police Scanner Monitor has advised the Quarry’s City Editor of considerable as well as serious police radio traffic starting during the lunch hour today that is tied to two serious fire events in the westerly side of Quincy.
While details are still coming in, at this point it would appear that both fires are at larger for Quincy multiple unit residential properties.
One fire is at 64 Willard near the Common Market Restaurants and the other fire is at 6 Crown Drive roughly adjacent to the Quincy Marriott Hotel in the Crown Colony office park.
Especially problematic, both properties have a fair number of older residents and thus making things more complicated for first responders.
A podium and stick building fire
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Particularly disconcerting is that Willard is likely a wood frame building and the Crown Drive address cited on police radio messages is the location of the handful of relatively new podium and stick buildings adjacent to the Quincy Marriott Hotel, a building design known to be problematic but still the usual design for the several thousand apartments built in Quincy in recent years.
While the Crown Drive fire appears to be care of a two car accident and perhaps so relatively contained, the Willard fire appears to be at least well on its way to a complete loss of the building as the fire has been said to have broken through the roof.
Boston Fire Department helping out at the Quincy Masonic Temple fire
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Both fires also appear to have seen mutual aid responses with at least Boston police and Milton firefighters on the scene at the Willard Street fire and which is looking to be the worst fire incident in Quincy in years.
In particular, Milton Fire Department personnel are said to be fire blitzing at the Willard Street fire and which is a triage level response to a fire so as to endeavor to protect lives.
Further, radio chatter indicates at least concerns that residents may be trapped on the top floor of the Willard building.
Further troubling yet, the police radio traffic includes communication indicating that at least a fire firelighter is down even as other radio reports indicate that firefighters have been ordered out of the building.
Again, as these are just breaking bad news fire events, Quincy Quarry News’ ever-growing legions of loyal readers can count on the Quarry to continue to follow these breaking badly bad news© stories and then report on things as might be appropriate,
- Update: Red Cross team at Common Market to help those displaced by the Willard Street fire and as of 3 PM radio chatter indicates (so far, ed.) no known fatalities.
- Update: Resident seriously burned and two firefighters treated for heat-related issues.
Thanks for the link, by the way, to the piece about “podium and stick” buildings. 100% on the money. Quincy is now full of these ugly boxes. A perfect example is the pseudo Art Deco Deco Apartment Building opposite the Quincy Adams T-station — the quintessential smearing of lipstick on a pig. It belongs somewhere, but I haven’t figured out where. I call it the dreck-o apartments.
How about the harborside of the 200 block of Newbury Avenue?
Yes, another “classic”.
Can’t you tell, our EDUCATORS have taught the only science they know, play with Legos and toys. If it can’t snap together, they need someone to make it work. It don’t go, please make it go. They cry for 20 minutes. This is part of the Woke engineering process.