Homes Razed By Wild Fire
Homes Razed By Wild Fire
Spectacular pictures showing blazes and billowing smoke which, in a few hours destroyed 17 Boston homes and severely damaging 19 more at the city line between Boston and Dorchester. 300 left homeless. Fortunately no lives were lost.A tragedy due to old, wooden, firetrap tenements. Boston, Massachuetts A neighborhood in Boston with rolls of two-story frame homes on fire. A lot of people on the street, the fire department with their hoses streaming water trying to contain the fire from spreading any more. MS - Looking down a gangway you see the flames and smoke shooting out of the buildings. MS - Back of one of the building's with the third and second floor engulfed in flames and smoke. You see the stream of water coming out of the fire hose. MS - An absolutely frightening sight of these houses totally engulfed in a very menacing fire. MSOH - Crowds gather on the streets to watch in horror the fire eating up the houses. MS - Firemen getting more hose to fight the fire off the fire trucks. MS - Firemen with their hoses spewing water fighting the fires. MS - People inside their apartments / homes handing whatever belonging s they can save. MS - The houses are totally in a casement of fire, you can see some of the skeletal building materials.