This time it's not the Bronx burning... it's the Fens.
Firefighters surveying the scene at Fenway
A fire broke out at Fenway in the morning hours of Sunday- but spokesmen for the Boston Fire Department (and the media) were all quick to make sure and label it as "small" and "harmless".
As part of the ongoing renovations, construction workers are removing a temporary private box from along the third base line. Sparks from a welder's torch, used in cutting apart and removing debris, snuck in amongst a pile of construction rubble on top of the grandstand roof and ignited the pile into a smoldering fire. One of the workers noticed the fire, called BFD, and it was quickly extinguished. BFD stated no one was injured and nothing had been damaged- the pile of construction rubble was all going to be thrown away anyway.
Oddly enough, I found a blogger who was outside Fenway the night before (Saturday night), and snapped photos of the welding going on up on top of the grandstands there. She posted several of her pictures- and you can see there were huge sprays of sparks.
on November 19, 2007 7:42 AM
I first found out about this by seeing a teaser shot on the local new that just showed smoke billowing out of the park and a very-informative "Fire at Fenway? We have the story...next." line. There was a scary minute after that until they came back, I imagined like all of the grandstand seats burning or something.