Fire broke out at One Congress Street, the high-rise constructing being erected close to the Government Center Garage, at round midday and escalated to a 4-alarm hearth over the subsequent hour.
“Companies are chasing the fire on multiple floors in the high rise building. The fire is traveling thru the duct work and shafts,” the Boston Fire Department tweeted at 12:50 p.m.
The Herald couldn’t instantly attain the Fire Department by cellphone for extra data as they battle the blaze, however emergency transmissions do counsel that firefighters are “opening up walls” on flooring eight and 9.
“Companies have to open up the walls to reach the fire. They are using saws to cut open the duct work,” the Department tweeted at 1:18 p.m. “The command staff have been rotating members to rehab to keep them from overheating in the warm weather.”
Temperatures are within the excessive 80s in downtown Boston proper now.
A Boston Police Department spokesman mentioned that officers are additionally on the bottom directing site visitors.
Another hearth tore by way of the twentieth flooring of the 43-story tower simply final month, on June 24. Firefighters needed to battle by way of “pretty bad smoke” from the 18th flooring upward as the fireplace blazed its approach as much as the twenty first flooring, a Fire Department spokeswoman mentioned then.
The space has been the main focus of a number of disturbances throughout demolition of the close by Government Center Parking Garage — and even one dying — this yr.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”