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Not-So-Recent Fire Photos Page 7

Photos taken with Sony Mavica 91 Digital Camera. All photos copyright Ed Burke

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Photos Posted 0045 hrs 9/4/99

Raynham, MA Approx. 2130 hours 9/3/99. equivalent of a third alarm for a block of stores in the 700 block of Broadway (Route 138). Mutual aid from many surrounding towns was called in to control the fire before it entered the end building, a welding gas supply company. Photos taken 2200-2300 hrs.

Photos Posted 0520 hrs 8/30/99

Holyoke, MA Approximately 2015 hrs 8/29/99. A General Alarm fire that started in two 5 story abandoned apartment buildings quickly spread to engulf an entire city block, including the two 5 story apartment buildings, a church rectory, a church, a 3 story apartment building and a 3 story attached rowhouse. These photos are from approximately 2300 hrs 8/29/99 to 0130 hrs 8/30/99. (Holyoke is about 100 miles from my home in Boston, and it took some time to get out there.) The grainy photos are photos that were taken without a flash, and then lightened on the computer.

Photos Posted 2115 hrs 7/28/99

New Bedford, MA Brook St. & Sawyer St. Approx 1400 hrs.General Alarm in a large factory type building. The fire is suspected to have originated in a pile of pallettes adjacent to the building. Photos Taken Approx. 1730 hrs. I apologize for the quality of these photos, but the New Bedford FD and PD did not extend the professional courtesies that I normally enjoy at fire scenes, and was kept well away from the scene.

Photos Posted 2020 hrs 7/1/99

Boston, MA 7/1/99 Box 3731 10 Park Street (Hyde Park Section) Approx. 1900 hrs. Fire in a two story wood frame structure approx. 35X60 was brought under control quickly by the first alarm assignment.

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