Sunday, April 22, 2012
And a house fire in JP displaces 14.
The top headlines from around the city last week. Charlestown Life Focus Center to close in June: Charlestown’s Life Focus Center announced this week that its contracts with the state had been terminated. Charlestown patch readers reacted strongly to the news, but the state said it would do what it could to minimize how much this development impacts customers and employees. Jamaica Plain Porch Fire on Jamaica Plain's Paul Gore Street Displaces Residents: A porch fire at 83 Paul Gore Street has caused 14 people to be displaced from their homes, according to fire sources and neighbors. The fire began on the back porch of apartment 6, which is on the third floor. It extended inside. The Boston Fire Department reports there were no known …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
According to a Northeastern University professor, the chemical that may have been used by a 25-year-old Boston University graduate student to take her own life Monday is easy to find.
The toxic substance that officials say may have been ingested by a Boston University doctoral student when she apparently took her own life at her South End brownstone is inexpensive and readily available online, according to a toxicologist. According to a report in the Boston Herald, Roger W. Glese, a professor of chemistry and biomedical science at Northeastern University, said sodium azide is in the “same class” as the cyanide concoctions that have been responsible for similar incidents in recent years. “It’s easy to obtain,” Giese told the Herald. “It’s inexpensive, it’s water soluble. It’s salt, like sodium chloride ... And it doesn’t take very much” to be lethal, he said. The chemical is used as a preservative in laboratories, and …
She was working to eradicate diseases such as Alzheimer's that afflict the elderly.
The Boston University graduate student who apparently took her own life by ingesting a toxic substance in her South End apartment Monday night was working to eradicate diseases that afflict the elderly, her grieving father told the Boston Globe Tuesday. “Some of her older family members had diseases of the aged, like Alzheimer’s, and she was trying to contribute to society” by wiping out such conditions, said Jeffrey Brown, 58, of Virginia, the father of Carolyn Brown, 25, to the Globe. A doctoral candidate in pharmacology at Boston University, Carolyn Brown ingested a toxic chemical in her first-floor apartment at 676 Massachusetts Ave. at around 9 p.m. on Monday, officials said. She was later pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center, …
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A young woman apparently committed suicide by ingesting a chemical used to make airbags, authorities say.
Editor's Note: This article was updated at 10:27 a.m. with information regarding the victim. Four Boston Police officers and an ambulance crew were taken to the hospital and 12 people were evacuated from a South End apartment building after a woman committed suicide by ingesting a toxic substance, according to fire officials. Boston Deputy Fire Chief Steve Dunbar told the Boston Globe that a young woman ingested the chemical on the first floor of 676 Massachusetts Avenue at about 9 p.m. and was transported to Boston Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead. He also said four police officers and the two EMS workers from the ambulance team were being quarantined at BMC to find out if they were affected by the chemical. According to…
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A one-alarm fire caused by an electrical short circuit in a second floor ceiling fan left a South End mother and daughter displaced Tuesday.
A South End mother and daughter were left displaced after a fire that started in a second floor bathroom damaged their home on Kerr Way Tuesday afternoon. According to Boston Fire Department District Nine Chief Paul Miller, the fire was the result of a short circuit in a ceiling fan on the second floor and caused approximately $30,000 in damages to the structure and its contents. Roughly 26 Boston firefighters responded to the one-alarm fire, and were able to battle the blaze into submission in around 45 minutes, Miller said. Despite the close proximity of neighboring units, the fire was kept from spreading further than the apartment in which it originated, according to fire officials. The apartment, part of the Madison Park Village …
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A fire on a roof deck at 33 Union Park in the South End caused around $200,000 in damages, according to the Boston Fire Department.
Large plumes of dark smoke spewed into the South End skyline as firefighters battled a rooftop blaze at 33 Union Park this afternoon. The fire is thought to have caused around $200,000 in damages to the unit in which it originated and also some water damage to the adjoining unit, 31 Union Park. No one was injured and the cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to fire officials. Firefighters responded to a call about a rooftop fire at Union Park around 4 p.m., and, upon arrival, discovered a blaze on a roof deck at 33 Union Park. Smoke briefly covered the skies in the South End, and was visible from office buildings and high-rise apartments throughout the area. According to the Boston Fire Department, it took around an …
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
A look back at South End Patch's top stories from March 12-18.
5 Things To Know About The South End's Newest Gallery: South End resident Adam Gold opened up the Gold Gallery on March 1. The ‘Doggie’ Days Are Over: A local pet care shop has closed its doors. Where Should DoggieDay’s Former Customers Go Now?: Your neighbors are in need of some immediate recommendations. Harrison-Albany Corridor Entering New Era: The long-stagnant area is experiencing an influx of new development proposals, according to the Boston Globe. De Niro Went Undercover in South End: According to the Boston Herald’s “Inside Track” column, Oscar-winner Robert De Niro went undercover at the South End’s Pine Street Inn to prep for his role of Jonathan Flynn in the movie “Being Flynn,” which is currently in theaters. Urban Beekeepers…
Friday, March 16, 2012
Menino also plans to establish a panel of energy experts to investigate cause of fire.
Mayor Thomas Menino said in a press conference today he's "frustrated" by NStar's lag-time to restore power, and hopes the electric company will reimburse $85,000 in city overtime costs, and losses incurred by small businesses. "I want the shareholders to pay for the costs of this accident," Menino said. "Not the ratepayers." He also plans to establish a panel of energy experts that will review NStar generators, and said the city is working with the state Department of Public Utilities to investigate the cause of Tuesday's transformer fire. The four-alarm fire at 6:30 p.m. poured a blanket of thick black smoke over the neighborhood, and cut power to about 21,000 customers in the surrounding area. NStar kept extending deadlines as to when…
NStar says no investigation could have predicted the fire.
The 'catastrophic failure' of an underground electrical cable connected to a transformer at NStar's Scotia Street substation sparked the four-alarm fire Tuesday night, NStar officials said Thursday afternoon. Soot buildup in the backout transformer then caused the major blackout that cut off power to 21,000 customers across the Back Bay and surrounding area. The power was restored Thursday afternoon. NStar CEO Thomas May said in his 35 years at the job, he's never seen anything like it. The electric company has "the best engineers in America who are routinely inspecting this every month," and has invested $9 million over the past five years into the substation, he said. Mayor Thomas Menino expressed his frustration at a press conference …
Youaresheeple
12:16 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
We should ban the internet, spoons, and sharp objects too. She wanted to kill herself, she had the knowledege to use a chemical, if not she would've used something else...I am really getting tired of fake journalism...senastionalist...she was a doctoral student...she couldve thought of a lot of things to kill herself...ban doctors too...they know too much. more ›