Description: Aerials of fire fighters responding to an accident on a bridge. Aerials of traffic on highways.
Collection: WHDH
Description: Arlington town manager is fed up with impending local aid cuts. Arlington fire engine and firefighters. Municipal office workers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1989
Description: High rate of claims for auto theft and arson (torched cars) in Mass. Abandoned, burnt and stolen cars along roadside. Car in flames. Fire engine leaving station with siren on at night.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1988
Description: Compilation of edited pieces covering the Blinstrub fire. Interview with Stanley Blinstrub in front of his destroyed nightclub, with fire fighters in the background. He says that he still can't believe it. Another interview with Stanley Blinstrub on his plans to rebuild. Outtakes of the interview in front of the building on fire. He mentions that Jimmy Durante was booked to a sold out house next month, and he'll have to cancel those shows. B-roll of the fire, fire trucks, and fire fighters. Aerial views of the fire. Reporter standup. More outtakes of the interview in front of the building on fire. Interview with a men who grew up working at Blinstrub's on his reaction. Interview with another man on the history of Blinstrub's. Closeups on music scores and other artifacts rescued from the fire. Footage of the building being gutted after the fire. Another interview with Blinstrub on the cause of the fire.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/07/1968
Description: Damaged remains of bombed prop jet outside Eastern Airlines hangar at Logan Airport. Yellow Massport fire truck. Fire fighters spraying wreckage. Group of men examine ruined fuselage and wing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/02/1976
Description: Boston Fire Department works to extinguish remnants of fire in railroad yard (near Back Bay/South End?). Many hoses with arcing spray. Fire apparatus. Charred debris of freight cars and structural beams. Foster Electric trailer. Henry Wolfers Lighting. Many shots seen through smoke, haze, glare on lens. Water dousing burnt warehouse. Four firefighters, one black.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1978
Description: Fire at 5 West Street Boston, housing the Brattle Book Shop. Firefighters on ladder aim hoses into upper windows. Ice chunks flow in street. Badly damaged books lie in puddles. Ice encrusts burnt out building. Icicles cover hydrant. Ken Gloss says loss is total (400,000 antiquarian books and rare manuscripts). He and his father George are determined to reopen in new location next week.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1980
Description: Brattle Book Shop fire in progress at night on West Street Boston. Flames and smoke shoot out of top of building. Boston firefighters aim powerful spray. Film transfer, no audio. Shot by Danny Sullivan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1980
Description: Mayor John Brennan, Jr. explains Chelsea's economic plight requiring layoffs of teachers, police, firefighters. Voters failed to override Prop 2 1/2 despite the dire straits. Triple deckers. Tobin Bridge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1991
Description: South Hampton [Southampton] Street 5 alarm. Skyline view of very large fire at night. Fire fighters with hoses trying to put out fire. Shots of burning building from various angles and distances. Dark clouds of smoke. Notes from Catalog Card: "J crowley sil 150' 12/7/70? 1970?"
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/07/1970